Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them.

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.

A good man shares his knowledge selflessly with everyone.

a life without investigation is not worth living

Don't drink too much.""When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop.""I'll have to get a shorter name.""I'll have to forget how to spell it.

I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.