From "The Mind's own Physician".

" Many problems are due to ignorance. Ignorance brings with it an unrealistic attitude. And unrealistic attitude brings a lot of mental problems. Accept reality , and approach it more realistically. If something can be done , there's no need to worry. If it cannot be done, there's no use worrying. Finished.

One source of problems is grasping at some sort of enduring permanence. Another source of problems is extreme self-centeredness. For each of these mental ailments, we need different approaches, different antidotes to trasform and shape the mind. That's my view. To realize intelligence more effectively, I prefer a sound sleep than meditation!" HH Dalai Lama

From  the Mind's own Physician: a scientific dialogue with the Dalai Lama about the Healing Power of Meditation.

Something about Kindness...

Yesterday while reading the book "The Mind's Own Physician: A scientific dialogue with The Dalai Lama on  the Healing Power of Meditation", I've discovered the poem "Kindness" by by Naomi Shihab Nye. I would love to write a lot about this wonderful attitude, but I think the poem speaks for itself. 

Kindness


Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.
Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.