Matthieu Ricard

very clever and tireless our consumer society is at inventing countless bogus pleasures, laboriously hyped stimulants designed to keep us in a state of emotional tension capable of triggering a kind of mental anesthesia.

Just as it is the mind that translates suffering into unhappiness, it is the mind’s responsibility to master its perception thereof.

true happiness: clarity of mind, loving-kindness, the gradual withering of negative emotions, and the disappearance of selfish whimsy.