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If you want more love in your life, love more.
If you want more compassion, help more.
If you want more power, serve more.
If you want more wealth, give more.
If you want more peace, make peace.
If you want more joy, rejoice in the virtue and happiness of others.
- Tashi Nyima

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In the Buddhist teachings, we call strong emotions like anger, attachment, jealousy, and arrogance “poisons.” They poison not just our own happiness but also our connections with loved ones, friends, coworkers, and our local community. - Anyen Rinpoche 
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We actually have the power to transform our own state of mind from resentment to peace and contentment. - Anyen Rinpoche 
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“I” is simply a conventional designation; it exists as a pronoun, a word, a sound. What does not exist is a corresponding entity, a substantial and permanent self.
​ - Tashi Nyima
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In Buddhism we encourage a kind of kindness that extends far beyond our realm of self-interest in that it embraces also those toward whom we would otherwise feel indifferent, and then, further, those for whom we would otherwise feel animosity.
- Bhikkhu Cintita
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​ What you are looking for in the teacher is not verbal, intellectual, or spiritual skill, but whether the person is fair, ethical, stable, and kind—in other words, they have overcome the natural self-centered impulses that human beings are all subject to.
​- Norman Fischer

Victor M. Parachin ... 

a Vedic educator, yoga instructor, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of a dozen books. Buy his books at amazon or your local bookstore. Sadly, Victor passed away in August 2025, but his blog continues. Janet Parachin, his partner of 45 years, shares quotes from his books and articles each week. 

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