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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

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
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Darkness Drive Hate Light Love Yourself
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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Angry Power Word
Behind the smiles, everyone is going through personal struggles we know nothing about.
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Personal Smile Struggle
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
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
Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Deep Difference Experience Himself Man
Fight the strong urge to judge someone based on an initial interaction with them. Everyone has a fascinating story that we know nothing about.
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Fight Judgement Story Strong
This happens with all relationships, not just in marriages. If we are not proactive in our relationships, they start to seem dry and become cumbersome. We have to have respect for the other person, which is reflected in how sensitively we treat them.
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Marriage Person Reflection Relationship Start Treat
Physical violence is inflicted with weapons, but emotional violence is inflicted with words; words can leave invisible scars that can take years, or even lifetimes, to heal.
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Emotion Healing Leaving Life Scars Time Violence Weapon
Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.
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Avoid Choice Mistake People
Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.
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Company Friendship Powerful Yourself
If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Career Day Love Work Yourself
We must find positivity in the bleakest situations and live by the principle of gratitude
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Gratitude Live Positivity Principle
People with a closed mindset want to grow by beating others in their field. Open-minded people, on the other hand, grow by developing themselves.
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Development Growth Hands Mindset People
The eyes are the window to the soul,
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Eyes One Liner Soul Window
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
Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.
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Angry Each Other Human Nature
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
Live your life in such a way that those who know you but don’t know God will come to know God because they know you.
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Character God Inspirational Life Live Motivational Yourself
Spirituality helps develop good character. It is character that shines bright when words fail to do so.
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Character Development Failure Goodness Shine Spirituality Word
Think: Is this in my control? If yes, you can do something about it. If no, then you cannot do anything about it. Therefore, in both circumstances, why worry?
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Control Thinking Worry Yourself
You need an attitude of service. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.
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Attitude Growth Help Need Service Yourself
Things do change over time.
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Change One Liner Time
Hot heads do not give good feedback – choose a better time.
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Angry Better Choice Head Time
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

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