Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Our greatest threats never come from strangers but those closer to us”.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences.

Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.

He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.