The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

We have to be more interested in making things better than just being right, or interesting, or funny.

the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with these things — the sooner we get better at them. We must be more than just happy to be here.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

We no longer seek the “cause” of events in the nature of a single isolated object, but in the relationship between an object and its surroundings.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

There is less certainty about what is right for others. With an awareness of multiple realities, we lose our dogmatic attachment to a single point of view. A new sense of connection with others promotes social concern. A more benign view of the world makes others seem less threatening; enemies disappear.

[F]or me 'tis a better-natured and a less fault to believe too much than to distrust where there is no cause.

Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

For the first time we’re not putting a band-aid on the problem, we’re looking at the root causes.

It is easier to bear suffering when one clearly understands all its causes, and distinguishes just how great a part of it is inevitable and how great a part may be avoided or mitigated.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

Suffering has clear causes in your brain and body, so if you change its causes, you’ll suffer a lot less. And you can change those causes.