Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

It’s harder to come back than it is to arrive.

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

There's been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and apply it to Australian politics.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.