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Balance: The Wisdom of Deng Ming-Dao

Everything has its place. Everything has its season. As events turn, balance is to know what is here, what is coming and how to be in perfect harmony with it. Then one attains a state of sublimity that cannot be challenged.
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Monday Morning Guide to Happiness

Why I like this list so much is its simplicity and solid grounding in common sense. So start your week off with a little help on the path to happiness.
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The Science of Happiness

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger Continue reading

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The Dalai Lama on Happiness

Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness. Continue reading

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A Question of Happiness

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan Continue reading

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Monday Wisdom from the Dalai Lama

A reminder from his holiness that our own thoughts and attitudes can drive the way the world works, hopefully this will help us all have a better Monday and week than we had last week.
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Saying Goodbye

This is a post from another blog that is about saying goodbye, to the things we want to lose and the people we love. Saying goodbye properly is as important to our happiness as anything else.

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A Perplexing Week but its a Happy Friday

So here is hoping the perplexing nature of this week is the beginning of a new learning experience and I wish you all a great weekend and I leave you a thought from Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Happiness Requires an Open Mind

Happiness cannot occur if you spend all of your time being negative and looking down on others. Finally, I think it is also important, no matter how much faith you have in science, to understand there is still magic in the world. Children understand this and it is important to remember that children are often much happier than adults, it is easy to write that off only to their lack of responsibilities, but I believe there is more to it than that, that there is a certain wisdom in the way in which children view the world.
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Tuesday has got to be better than Monday

Dalai Lama For the rest of your life to be as meaningful as possible, engage in spiritual practice if you can. It is nothing more than acting out of concern for others. If you practice sincerely and with persistence, little by little, step by step you will gradually reorder your habits and attitudes so as to think less about your own narrow concerns and more about others’ – and thereby find peace and happiness yourself. Continue reading

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