An untrained mind usually focuses not on what one needs and has but on what one wants but lacks.

It is a sign of failure to have achieved spiritual awakening, to seek happiness in material success.

Unlike happiness, unhappiness cannot happen without the presence of an ego.

You can be angry that someone did not flush the toilet, or be glad that they have relieved themselves into it.

We are so addicted to and desperate for happiness that we are often happy for other people.

An untamed mind is usually doing its level best to attain or to retain unhappiness.

Sanity is a never-ending tug of war between oneself, pulling one’s attention towards happiness, and one’s mind, pulling it towards unhappiness.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.