life on our planet. This is the power we wield.

There are going to be frustrations in life. The question is not: How do I escape? It is: How can I use this as something positive?

our perspective has a surprising amount of influence over the body’s stress response. When we turn a threat into a challenge, our body responds very differently.

When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share.

I am just one human being talking to other human beings.

The goal is not just to create joy for ourselves but, as the Archbishop poetically phrased it, “to be a reservoir of joy, an oasis of peace, a pool of serenity that can ripple out to all those around you.”

“It’s taught that the best way to create good karma with the least amount of effort is to rejoice in your good deeds and those of others.” Rejoicing predisposes us to repeat those good deeds in the future.

stress is simply the brain’s way of signaling that something is important.

The more we turn toward others, the more joy we experience, and the more joy we experience, the more we can bring joy to others.