But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experie… - Sam Harris

This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience

But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life.

Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.

Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others.

My view is that no idea is above scrutiny, and no people are beneath dignity.

Choices, efforts, intentions, and reasoning influence our behavior — but they are themselves part of a chain of causes that precede conscious awareness and over which we exert no ultimate control.

My friend Joseph Goldstein, one of the finest vipassana teachers I know, likens this shift in awareness to the experience of being fully immersed in a film and then suddenly realizing that you are sitting in a theater watching a mere play of light on a wall.