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Happy Place
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My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.


“There is toxicity everywhere around us. In the environment, in the political atmosphere, but the origin is in people’s hearts. Unless we clean the ecology of our own heart and inspire others to do the same, we will be an instrument of polluting the environment. But if we create purity in our own heart, then we can contribute great purity to the world around us.”
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.”
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Find me someone who has gone to the darkest parts of their own character where they were so close to their own self-destruction and found a way to get up and out of it, and I will bow on my knees to you. … You’re my teacher.”
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“The biggest lie is that the fight to address male suffering is separate or at odds with the battle to liberate women. We all experience gender. We are all limited by oppressive gender stereotypes. We must transcend the myth of the gender war. We’re all on the same team.”
― For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
― For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

“Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.”
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
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