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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

by Vanessa Van Edwards (Goodreads Author)

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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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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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“If you could go anywhere, where would you want to go?”

“Could we find a map of someplace perfect?”

“Like paradise?” I asked, teasing.

“Here? No.” He stared upward, the first stars shining in his eyes. “A better place. Someplace where nothing goes wrong. There must be a myth like that somewhere.”

I bit my lip; my shoulders fell. “Navigation involves the beliefs of the Navigator and the mapmaker. And I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who truly believes in a world without suffering.”
― Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere

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“Kashmir was ignorant and, therefore, unaffected of the happenings taking place behind its lofty mountains. No social or political upheaval was permitted to cross the sky-high and colossal walls of Kashmir. It was mainly because Dogra regime was loyal to the British Government and proved its loyalty in the difficult and testing time of revolt 1857.”
― Tarif Naaz, SHEIKH MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH : A VICTIM OF BETRAYAL

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“Who said it was thieves who know the price of everything and the value of nothing?”
“Oscar Wilde,” I said. “And it’s cynics, not thieves.”
“Ah! That explains it, then.”
― Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere

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“Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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“Intuition is a wonderful gift but it can be both a blessing and a curse. If you can easily tune in to the grief of another, it is very easy to lose your way if you have not yet resolved your own present or past trauma and grief. If you have not healed from your own grief and you turn around and give all you have to give, you will find yourself drowning. Soon there will be nothing left of you.”
― Kate McGahan, Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief