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

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.

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.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.

When we live in the ego, we are human. When we live in the Awareness of the Oneness, we are Human Angels

A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.