The Dalai Lama says, “My religion is very simple: my religion is kindness.” Let’s not even get into the history of other religions in the world, because they are all so littered with war, cruelty, intolerance and hatred that we can barely see the landscape of the original messages of love and kindness that the […]
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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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In our busy lives, we tend to have a running commentary about time. We’re planning next week, next year. We glance at the clock and exclaim “Four o’clock already? Where did the day go!” And we also talk about “killing time” when we run up against an unexpected delay that leaves a hole in our
Just for fun, I Googled the word “success” – and got this response: About 1,180,000,000 results Even without seeing that there are over a billion references to success available on the internet, we already know that it’s hugely important in our own lives to feel successful. Yet so many people walk around (or trudge)
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I was in the grocery store line and heard a little girl behind me pipe up, telling her mom, “When I grow up, I’m going to teach running because I’m really fast, and I’m going to teach singing because I like it.” The mom replied that she thought those were great ideas and that her
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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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Countless writers, inventors, and explorers have had to face this dilemma: do I push ahead with what I see in my mind’s eye, or do I let the scoffers win? I’ll be the first to admit it can be a challenge when you have a big idea, and you know that family, friends and
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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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Did you ever stop to think what a devastating thing it is to have an inferiority complex? It means the person fails before they even get started. The mindset of thinking that others can do things that you can’t is filled with beliefs about yourself that are hardly flattering, and less than useful. In
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