Gradually I began to recognize how feeble and transitory the thoughts and emotions that had troubled me for years actually were, and how fixating on small problems had turned them into big ones.

Mingyur Rinpoche

The unshakable basis of serenity, confidence and happiness was closer to me than my own eyes.

Mingyur Rinpoche

Buddhism is not so much concerned with getting well as with recognizing that you are, right here, right now, as whole, as good, as essentially well as you could ever hope to be.

Mingyur Rinpoche

In many surveys it turns out that every student, questioned privately, thinks that binge drinking is a terrible idea, but each is convinced that his peers think it's cool.

Steven Pinker

Humans can thrive on a modern vegetarian diet and animals' interests in a life free of pain and premature death surely outweigh the marginal increase in pleasure we get from eating their flesh.

Steven Pinker

Pain and humiliation distract children from pondering what they did wrong.

Steven Pinker