By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche — 2012
It’s surprisingly easy to achieve lasting happiness — we just have to understand our own basic nature. The hard part, says Mingyur Rinpoche, is getting over our bad habit of seeking happiness in transient experiences.
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CLEAR ALL
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
We are what we believe we are!
When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.