Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

The lesser evil is also evil.

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.

Something good comes out of every crisis.

You know you are in love when you are willing to share your cash-machine number.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.

'Faith' Him When You Can't Feel Him.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

Necessity is God's veil.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.