Geoff-Allen
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Declutter your mind love yourself
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Stop chasing happiness -
20 Powerful Reminders to Stop Chasing Happiness
What you think will bring you happiness today may look very different from tomorrow. And perhaps what you thought would make you happy, ends up having a different outcome.
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Prayer for difficult people
Gracious Father, the Fountain of Living Waters, in Your word, You call us to bear with one another in love and to strive for peace with everyone. I admit that at times my patience wears thin with difficult individuals, and I struggle to love those who challenge and oppose me.
I humbly ask for an outpouring of Your patience and compassion within me. Let my heart mirror Your heart, which is slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness.
christianstt.com
Huge page in fact!!!!!
Gracious Father, the Fountain of Living Waters, in Your word, You call us to bear with one another in love and to strive for peace with everyone. I admit that at times my patience wears thin with difficult individuals, and I struggle to love those who challenge and oppose me.
I humbly ask for an outpouring of Your patience and compassion within me. Let my heart mirror Your heart, which is slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness.
Prayer For Dealing With Difficult Persons - ChristiansTT
Give us peace and patience to deal with these seemly difficult persons with ease, with respect and with a smile, Oh Heavenly Father...
christianstt.com
Huge page in fact!!!!!
Geoff-Allen
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womansday.com depression
"If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve to never ask why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather."
Stephen Fry
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Depression You're Not Alone
"If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve to never ask why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather."
Stephen Fry
These 30 Quotes About Depression Are Full of Insight and Inspiration
Depression hurts, but these uplifting quotes can help.
Depression You're Not Alone
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Brain Plasticity - Leunig
Official website of Michael Leunig, Australian artist & cartoonist.
Geoff-Allen
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Been a while -
From "The Lost art of Compassion" by Lorne Ladner
This brings me back to the earlier question of what constitutes a good, happy, meaningful life. When you ask Westerners this question, some answer based on external accomplishments such as gaining a certain amount of wealth, popularity, sensual pleasure, comfort and social standing.
Others answer on a more deeply interpersonal level, focusing on their relationships with family and friends and on making some significant contribution to the world. It's extremely rare for anyone - even Western psychotherapists - to answer this question psychologically. The Buddhist response to this question is deeply psychological: Buddhism asserts that a good, happy life is determined not by anything external but rather by the quality of our minds and hearts in each moment of life. Regardless of what we do or don't do externally, a life spent cultivating wisdom and compassion is a good life.
At first, trying to use an argument as an opportunity to develop compassion and find joy seems a bit strange. Someone in your life approaches you in a provocative, agitated, unreasonable annoying way. You immediately think, "Oh, good, this is my opportunity. Here's an argument starting. Now I can really practice compassion!"
When you're just getting started, you'll be of two minds about the situation. Based on old habits, part of you will want the person to stop being difficult and to act kind and friendly. The part of you that is happy to find this opportunity initially may seem weak or less than genuine. That's alright; it just means that you're not yet accustomed to practicing compassion and inner disarmament. Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises us that when you get good at this practice, the thought of enjoying such challenges will arise as naturally and joyfully as the thought of liking ice cream or chocolate. It all depends on what you're accustomed to.
"Often it is difficult people who are suffering the most and are therefore most in need of compassion."
"Perhaps some parts of ourselves that we see as normal and essential to who we are in fact block us from being more compassionate, creative, content and joyful than we've yet imagined we could be."
"His Holiness the Dalai Lama often notes that in order to avert war and bring about disarmament in the world we must begin by effecting an inner disarmament."
"By spending time regularly for months or years imagining how they received limitless love & kindness over infinite expanses of time, meditators gradually develop an inexhaustible sense of gratitude, love, affection & inner wealth."
"If you're sincerely interested in being a more loving, good-hearted person then it can be particularly helpful at the beginning to recognise that it's mainly through your practice with difficult people that you will become confident that your inner development is bearing fruit."
From "The Lost art of Compassion" by Lorne Ladner
This brings me back to the earlier question of what constitutes a good, happy, meaningful life. When you ask Westerners this question, some answer based on external accomplishments such as gaining a certain amount of wealth, popularity, sensual pleasure, comfort and social standing.
Others answer on a more deeply interpersonal level, focusing on their relationships with family and friends and on making some significant contribution to the world. It's extremely rare for anyone - even Western psychotherapists - to answer this question psychologically. The Buddhist response to this question is deeply psychological: Buddhism asserts that a good, happy life is determined not by anything external but rather by the quality of our minds and hearts in each moment of life. Regardless of what we do or don't do externally, a life spent cultivating wisdom and compassion is a good life.
At first, trying to use an argument as an opportunity to develop compassion and find joy seems a bit strange. Someone in your life approaches you in a provocative, agitated, unreasonable annoying way. You immediately think, "Oh, good, this is my opportunity. Here's an argument starting. Now I can really practice compassion!"
When you're just getting started, you'll be of two minds about the situation. Based on old habits, part of you will want the person to stop being difficult and to act kind and friendly. The part of you that is happy to find this opportunity initially may seem weak or less than genuine. That's alright; it just means that you're not yet accustomed to practicing compassion and inner disarmament. Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises us that when you get good at this practice, the thought of enjoying such challenges will arise as naturally and joyfully as the thought of liking ice cream or chocolate. It all depends on what you're accustomed to.
"Often it is difficult people who are suffering the most and are therefore most in need of compassion."
"Perhaps some parts of ourselves that we see as normal and essential to who we are in fact block us from being more compassionate, creative, content and joyful than we've yet imagined we could be."
"His Holiness the Dalai Lama often notes that in order to avert war and bring about disarmament in the world we must begin by effecting an inner disarmament."
"By spending time regularly for months or years imagining how they received limitless love & kindness over infinite expanses of time, meditators gradually develop an inexhaustible sense of gratitude, love, affection & inner wealth."
"If you're sincerely interested in being a more loving, good-hearted person then it can be particularly helpful at the beginning to recognise that it's mainly through your practice with difficult people that you will become confident that your inner development is bearing fruit."
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The best place to start when it comes to being happy is your mind. Our minds and the way we think largely determine our happiness.
So how do you change your mind to be happy? The answer might be found in starting a mindfulness practice.
www.trackinghappiness.com
That is one huge site!
So how do you change your mind to be happy? The answer might be found in starting a mindfulness practice.
15 of Our Best Happiness Tips (And Why They Work!)
Happiness is critical for our mental and physical well-being, but where do you start? Here are our 15 best happiness tips and why they work!
www.trackinghappiness.com
That is one huge site!
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For kind thread -
www.trackinghappiness.com
Enjoy!
3 Tips to Bring Joy and Happiness to Others (and Yourself Too!)
How to bring happiness to others? Sharing happiness can have positive effects on the giver. Here are real tips that will help you!
www.trackinghappiness.com
Enjoy!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
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For kind thread -
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8 Virtues We Need to Teach the Next Generation
As Christian parents, the greatest legacy we can give to our children is virtues. These virtues will help them to be better Christians.
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