Our Choice
Why worry?
If you can do something, do it.
If not, how can worrying help?…..Shantideva
Radically Happy: A User’s Guide to the Mind
Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon
Category: Psychology
When Should We Start Living?
This Fleeting Moment
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.Marie Baynon Ray
How Can We Live Authentically?
Being Authentic
When you are authentic, you know yourself deeply and trust your ability to shape your life in ways that align with your heartfelt interests. You have clarity about the conditions as they currently exist, both within and outside yourself, and understand how best to develop and utilize resources.
Living with Purpose
Living authentically enables you to shape a life of purpose, an ultimately meaningful life in which you experience participating in something greater than yourself. Experiencing yourself as authentic, you more readily recognize new opportunities, welcome them, and utilize them.
An Intentional Life: Five Foundations of Authenticity and Purpose
Lisa Kentgen, PhD
How Are We Connected To Each Other?
A Web of Connections
The universe is one thing. Everything and everyone is interconnected through a web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in silent conversation.
Do no harm. Practice compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone’s back – not even a seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.
One person’s pain will hurt us all. One person’s joy will make everyone smile.
What Can We Control In Life?
Making Choices
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
…..Epictetus
The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Who Knows Anyhow? 