Have you ever wanted something so much you could practically “taste it” as the saying goes? Perhaps it was a tangible item— such as a new watch, new or classic car, an item of clothing—or a desired experience –such as a new job or a wonderful vacation. You felt great just thinking about it. Without […]
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Are pity for someone and compassion for someone the same thing? Short answer: no, they’re not. I used to think that feeling sorry for someone meant you were demonstrating compassion, however, the emotional difference between pity and compassion is a powerful one, once we understand it, and learning how to shift into compassion is
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I use both a PC and a Mac, one is a desktop and the other is my laptop. I’ve used PCs for a long time, and you’d think that by now I’d be familiar with all the features of the Windows Media Player that I use daily to play music from my library of everything
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Whenever we walk out the door, we have an intention of heading somewhere, even if it is only a vague idea of taking a walk in the neighborhood. We always have an intention, but most of the time it is barely thought off, and we run on automatic pilot day in and day out. That’s
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If you’re familiar with my books and the blog at my central website, you’ll know I often talk about learning to release our old ways of thinking so we can embrace the power of the mental laws that govern our results. Let’s take a look at what happens when we come up with a
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When I was in the early weeks of developing the “Restoring Tibet” project whose working title was “The Dalai Lama Is Home Again,” I knew that I could use all the support I could find, particularly since I was working on the project in solitude and utmost secrecy, and would be for many months before
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When we open up to understanding the laws of creation, and that we have the power to experience a more joyful life by deliberately focusing on what we want, many of us get stuck. We wonder, “But can I really have it all?” … “Aren’t I being greedy to ask for so much when so
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It’s easy to tell ourselves that we enjoy meditating, or that we understand the benefits of it, and it’s also easy to get off to a flying start with an intention to meditate every day and then sputter into a landing field of hit or miss efforts. When we first begin meditating, it can seem
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This project to return His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet sprang from an idea I had one morning in January 2016, seemingly out of the blue. As soon as I got the idea, I knew it was a fantastic one—a “B-HAG”…a Big Hairy Audacious Goal. What do you do with an idea that
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This article is for all the people who grew up learning to be self-effacing, and have continued the practice long into adulthood. That practice of deflecting compliments, of saying “Oh, I just got lucky” or “Don’t be silly, it was nothing,” or “Anyone could do it better than I managed to pull off.” We’re taught
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