“Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.”
― The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power
― The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power
“when people consistently move in the direction of growth, feelings of happiness and life satisfaction tend to come along for the ride as an epiphenomenon of growth.”
― Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
― Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
“The birth of society is, in other words, the birth of suffering.”
― The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power
― The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power
“He is saying not just to love one’s neighbour, but to love them as much as one loves oneself. If one cannot love oneself, one cannot love others. If one cannot believe in oneself, one cannot believe in others. Please think of the phrase as carrying that connotation. You are insisting that you cannot believe in other people, but that is because you have not managed to truly believe in yourself.”
― The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power
― The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power
“We have to get past our obstinate self-centredness and stop trying to be the centre of the world. One has to break away from ‘me’. One has to break away from one’s pampered childhood lifestyle.”
― The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power
― The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power
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