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“Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]”
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“If I can't see around my personal story, I'll have no way to see sit in context: This is one event in a life of events. It is whatever it is, but it is temporal. The pain is terrible, but it won't last. I can manage it. or this joy is incredible, but it won't last. Celebrate it now! [pp. 104-105]”
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]”
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“Sadness isn't a kilesha, a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness is what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of karma does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].”
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands that you be bold.”
― The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
― The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
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