Eight Steps to Happiness Quotes

“The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.”
― Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“if we wish to protect ourself from suffering we can either try to change the whole world to make it conform to our wishes, or we can change our mind.”
― Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.”
― Kelsang Gyatso, Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“Because we have an exaggerated sense of our own importance we feel that others’ interests are in conflict with our own, and this in turn gives rise to competitiveness, jealousy, arrogance, and lack of consideration for others.”
― Kelsang Gyatso, Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness