It's so easy to think that we're the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they'd been born with some kind of special knowledge about being happy, that, through some cosmic accident, we never received. Thinking in this way, we make our own problems seem much bigger than they really are.


The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness (ed. Harmony, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307381514

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Quotes

It's so easy to think that we're the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they'd been born with some kind...

It's so easy to think that we're the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they'd been born with some kind...

It's so easy to think that we're the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they'd been born with some kind...

It's so easy to think that we're the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they'd been born with some kind...