Building Confidence In Yourself

“Do your best and do it according to your own inner standard – call it conscience – not just according to society’s knowledge and judgement of your deeds.”

- H.H. The Dalai Lama

“Our problem is that inside us there’s a mind going, ‘Impossible, impossible, impossible. I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.’ We have to banish that mind from this solar system. Anything is possible; everything is possible.”

– Lama Thubten Yeshe

“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”

- HH The Dalai Lama

Being Patient With Ourselves

“It is essential to learn to confront the less pleasant aspects of existence. Our job as meditators is to learn to be patient with ourselves, to see ourselves in an unbiased way, complete with all our sorrows and inadequacies.”

- Venerable Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness In Plain English

Building Courage In The Face of Adversity

“Encountering suffering will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are are able to transform the calamity and misfortune into the path. Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.”

- H.H. The Dalai Lama

‘”Inside every one of us is a garden, and each practitioner has to go back and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left it unattended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. Many people will enjoy your garden if it is well tended.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“Try to consider as transitory all adverse circumstances and disturbances. Like ripples in a pool, they occur and soon disappear.”

- HH The Dalia Lama

Valuing Others

“When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.”

- Gautama Buddha

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of that candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

- Gautama Buddha

“The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our sense of well-being.”

HH The Dalai Lama

“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh