Throughout our life, we have always been chasing after countless external things that we truly believe will make us happy. However, as we have experienced, only temporary happiness has been achieved at best. But no matter where we are, or what we are doing, the true lasting source of happiness has always been within us, waiting to be discovered.

It's as though we have always been sick, and that we have always been running around searching everywhere for the medicine, without realising that we've been carrying it all of the time.

-- Chamtrul Rinpoche