When the underlying causes that produced and perpetuated an experience of happinesss change, most people end up blaming either external conditions or themselves. However, because it reflects a loss of confidence in oneself, or in the things we’re taught to believe should bring us happiness, blame only makes the search for happiness more difficult.
Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
Read a random quote or see all quotes by Mingyur Rinpoche.
Further quotes from the book The Joy of Living:
- Oh, this is how my mind works
- Neither rejecting nor accepting
- Importance of the motivation
- Recognizing the inherent potential of your mind
- Nothing more than the natural function of the mind
- Just observe it
- Trying to do your best
- Meditation on compassion
- Setting the tone for your entire day
- Being diligent
- Your mind just as it is
- What Buddhists mean by happiness
- Thinking of yourself as limited
- The best part of all
- Essentially good
- An experience of absolute well-being
- The need to look at the mind
- Never disturbed
- Becoming aware
- Experiencing the unlimited nature of the mind