Usually when we view someone as being a menace to society, we picture a reckless driver, a con artist, a criminal. But without realizing it, we can actually be a true menace to the people we care about the most, and we do this with our attitude and opinions of them. If your friend […]
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We all know what it’s like to walk into a crowded room, whether it’s an informal get-together or a work conference, and have the instant sensation that there’s a good “vibe” going on. Of course we have the contrary experience many times, too, when we detect an energy of anger, sadness or upset of any
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I’m sure you’re familiar with the saying “We become what we think about.” It’s nothing new. It’s wisdom that has been around for thousands of years. And yet we go along through life as if our thoughts don’t really count. I think the problem is that we don’t take it literally—we get the idea it
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I’ve written three books so far on the topic of happiness—actually, all my books, whether fiction or nonfiction, hold the intrinsic idea that we are meant to be happy beings, but we are the ones getting in the way. But how do we manage to do that? With all the self-help books, blogs like
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Please take a moment to read the title again, and now repeat it out loud, “This is my life—and I love it!” Did you smile? Or did you instantly think of all the ways your life sucks? If your thoughts went to a laundry list of things you are upset or discouraged about, understand that
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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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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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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 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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Dr. Joseph Murphy was an author, teacher and philosopher whose great contribution to understanding the laws of the mind and the scientific application of thought to improve our daily lives cannot be overestimated in my opinion. He’s one of my favorite writers, and I love to dip into my collection of books written by him,
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