29 Quotes by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems.

The opportunity to receive these transmissions also taught me, in an indirect way, the extremely valuable lesson that to whatever degree a person commits himself or herself to the welfare of others, he or she is repaid a thousandfold by opportunities for learning and advancement. Every kind word, every smile you offer someone who might be having a bad day, comes back to you in ways you'd never expect.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.

If you’re determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.

The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.