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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Gaur Gopal Das

People who meditate develop a habit of practicing sincere gratitude which helps them in all their relationships. It is a relationship-strengthening emotion because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.
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Development Emotion Meditation People Relationship Strength Support
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
What great men do, common men follow.
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Greatness Journey Man Path Yourself
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
We must find positivity in the bleakest situations and live by the principle of gratitude
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Gratitude Live Positivity Principle
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
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
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
Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.
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Company Friendship Powerful Yourself
Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.
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Deep Gold Perspective Search
It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.
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Deep Strange Word
The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.
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Family Ourselves Practice Selfish
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
Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.
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Avoid Choice Mistake People
Our relationships are stronger when they contain a spiritual component. There are three different ways to become good friends with someone.
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Different Friendship Goodness Ourselves Relationship Spiritual Strong
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
Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.
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Correct Forget Important Myself People
Having a friend to listen to your problems and discuss them with you is the beginning of finding a solution.
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Beginning Friendship Listening Problem Solution
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
To find your purpose in life, you must go on a journey of self-discovery.
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Discover Journey Life Purpose Yourself
Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.
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Exercise Journey Meditation Travel Yoga 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
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
Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.
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Affect Change Strange
Forgiveness is a complex concept. We must understand it thoroughly to be able to internalize it.
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Action Complication Deep Forgiveness Understand
Watch your thoughts, they turn into words. Watch your words, they turn into actions. Watch your actions, they turn into habits. Watch your habits, they turn into character. Watch your character, it turns into your destiny. It all begins with a thought.
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Action Beginning Character Destiny Habit Thinking Word Yourself
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

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