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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

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"I am liking this book but am not sure am such an outside-in person .More of inside out approach is more befitting yet am applying the approaches every day and it's exciting to see it into a possible successful gameplan." — Aug 08, 2017 11:03AM

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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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Ruchi Malhotra said: " This book has been my companion to investigate life. It has single handedly helped me in reconciling atleast a part of a tragedy that I faced. The author talks about Paramita, the six activities of the servants of peace. I feel the experience of read This book has been my companion to investigate life. It has single handedly helped me in reconciling atleast a part of a tragedy that I faced. The author talks about Paramita, the six activities of the servants of peace. I feel the experience of reading the book is so rich that one can go beyond the conventional notions of virtue and nonvirtue. I think what worked best for me is this idea from the book that training in this art of peace, there is no promise that because of our noble intentions, everything will be ok. In fact, there are no promises of fruition at all. Instead, we are encouraged to simply look at joy and sorrow, at laughing and crying, at hoping and fearing, at all that lives and dies. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness.
Another deeply important realization comes from reading about Samaya.It's marriage with reality. Its a practice of Vajrayana which comprises in Buddhism and from that point of view, looking for alternatives is the only thing that keeps us from realizing that we are already in a sacred place. Even if every inch of our being wants to run in the opposite direction, we stay here. There is no other way to enter sacred world. We have to stop thinking that we can get away and settle down somewhere else. Instead, we could just relax—relax with exhaustion, indigestion, insomnia, irritation, delight, whatever.

The idea of samaya is that if we don’t avoid our personal experience—if we don’t think there’s a better, more inspiring, less irritating, or less disturbing sound—sounds become vivid and transparent.
The same goes for mind. As we practice, we see that thoughts do not go away; they become more precise and less substantial. At the level of mind, we break samaya by making things “wrong” or making things “right.” We think we have some choice to make, some alternative to just hanging out with not solving anything, not resolving anything. We could say that, at the level of mind, breaking samaya is feeling that we must come up with a solution to a problem—or feeling that there is a solution or a problem at all. That might give you some idea of how difficult it is to keep samaya.

This book is an excellent instruction on how to come back to the moment. In what do we take refuge? Do we take refuge in small, self-satisfied actions, speech, and mind? Or do we take refuge in warriorship, in taking a leap, in going beyond our usual safety zones? ...more "

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Ruchi’s Quotes

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance

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“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: books, literature, lonliness, reading, solitude

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“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: curses, happiness, heartbreak, life

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“Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.

- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.

- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure

- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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