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Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Gaur Gopal Das

We need to understand the hierarchy of connections. Ultimately, we must connect to something above ourselves such as God. This can give us the power to spread happiness and joy around the world.
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Connection God Happiness Joy Need Understand World
Stop and reflect on your life regularly. Pressing the pause button to practise gratitude is the way to make it a constant in your life.
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Gratitude Life Practice Reflection Stop Yourself
The eyes are the window to the soul,
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Eyes One Liner Soul Window
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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Angry Power Word
One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.
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Ability Beautiful Judgement Moral Oneself
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
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Angry Capacity Fear Healing Help Meditation Natural Ourselves Worry
It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.
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Deep Strange Word
To accept someone when everything is going right is easy. But when things are falling apart around you and you stick together, that’s the test of a relationship. Love is when we have every reason to break up but we do not.
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Acceptance Break Up Choice Easy Fall Love Reason Relationship Right Yourself
The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.
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Family Ourselves Practice Selfish
As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Habit Myself Ourselves Stay
Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.
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Avoid Challenge Feeling Happiness Life Love Peace Reach Satisfaction
We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.
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Beyond Community Family Nation Ourselves Service
Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.
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Company Friendship Powerful Yourself
When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.
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Blessing Encouragement God Life Yourself
At work we tend to compare and compete with others, instead of comparing and competing with ourselves.
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Comparison Competition Ourselves Work
Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.
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Acceptance Confidence Development Gift Love Mindset Relationship

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