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“A hug often says what words don't adequately convey -- you're not alone, I feel your pain and I love you.”
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“Work / life balance comes down the three simple words: your feelings matter too.”
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“Innocence is the belief that what dwells in your heart does not require translation from the brain.”
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“You don't have to choose between business and spirituality. They coexist in each of us. When we develop both, that's when magic occurs.”
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“Your employees need your heart as much as your investors need your brain.”
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“The term 'Team Spirit' is a literal one. When we connect to the spirit in ourselves and those we work with, we truly become a team.”
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“When we see beyond our pain and find ourselves in others, we learn to love at the deepest level.”
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“Spiritual practice isn't about moving beyond business. It's the process of realizing that its all part of the same practice.”
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“If we fight and kill and hate in the name of God, what good is it? Do we really need that God?”
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
“Look around you now -- your boss, your coworkers, everyone you see is just like you... inside they all just want to be loved.”
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“Through our breath we find the path from our minds to our hearts. In our hearts we find the silent, peaceful calm in which all love exists.”
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“Hold your heart with the tenderest of thoughts.”
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“We're so caught up in stories of right and wrong that we've forgotten what life's about - loving ourselves and others.”
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“All there is to do is to love ourselves and each other. And when we fail, to love ourselves some more.”
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“I don't meditate to escape the world. I meditate to fill myself with the love and awareness to face the world.”
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“A perfect world is the product of the union of our diversity - that's the gift we give each other.”
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“My journey started with the question, "What do I have to do to FEEL successful?”
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
“Compassion isn't about emptying yourself until u have nothing left to give. It's about filling yourself up so you have everything to share.”
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“We spend more time at the office than our homes. Adding love to our work means adding love to the world.”
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“The question isn't what happens when we die, it's what are we doing right now while we're alive.”
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
“Sometimes the best meditation is found by resting your head on your pillow and giving yourself permission to dream.”
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“We have been perfectly placed here at this moment for this opportunity to experience life together.”
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“Once we have allowed both sides of us to flourish—the warrior and the monk—we then have the choice of which to apply to the situations life presents us. We can choose the sword when it is appropriate for battle or a monk-like approach when circumstances call for serenity. We are no longer trapped into always having to fight it out. We have a toolbox that allows us to become versatile leaders in a complex world.”
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“A few minutes of yoga each morning teaches our body to stretch and adapt, so that when life stretches us we don't break.”
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“After spending a lifetime defining myself through business success and feeling unfulfilled, I arrived at the gates of the Shaolin Temple having left business behind in the belief that my happiness could only be found through a peaceful monk-like existence devoid of the challenges of business. What I discovered is that we can have both business and peace of mind, and that those qualities—warrior and monk—reside in us all.”
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“You can change the world from your desk as easily as a guru can from an ashram.”
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
“One similarity, our common desire to be loved, is greater than all of our differences.”
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
― ...And I Breathed, My Journey from a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters
“Meditation is an intimate dance with our inner most being.”
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“We define success by how hard we struggle and how much money we make and then we wonder why life's so hard and we're never truly happy.”
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“When we trade self-help for self-love it becomes the practice of loving who we truly are rather than desperately trying to change ourselves.”
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