While we feel intense sadness, profound happiness can be just around the corner. One step away. One thought away. One kiss away. If today is not a good day, wake up tomorrow and start a better day. Close your eyes for a minute and open them looking for the beauty that the World is. Forget the ugliness, the adversity, ...

So that, if you wake up and understand that, you find that the two are one and the same identity ... one and the same Self ... one and the same life. Human beings have a Self, in the sense that they are able to look back on themselves as both subjects and objects in the ...

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We live our lives pursuing happiness out there as if it is a commodity. We have become slaves to our own desires and craving. Happiness isn't something that can be pursued or purchased like a cheap suit. This is Maya, illusion, the endless play of form. In the Buddhist tradition, ...

Self-compassion is extending compassion to one's self in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, or general suffering. Self-compassionate individuals experience greater psychological health than those who lack self-compassion. Self-compassion is positively associated with life satisfaction, wisdom, happiness, optimism, curiosity, learning goals, social connectedness, personal responsibility, and emotional resilience. At the same time, it is associated with a lower tendency ...

Life is a series of ever-changing moments of trials and joys, and sometimes Love is grand, and sometimes it is not. Sometimes it is not fun, but that does not make it any less important. In fact, during the most difficult, and trying of times, to love, and to continue to love, is actually the most ...

A real man knows what he wants in a partner, and once he has found that special someone, he commits himself and his whole life. Your happiness becomes his happiness. He stays loyal to you because he understands that one true Love is enough for a lifetime. A real man is able to make decisions based ...

Greed, hatred, and delusion are known as the three poisons, the three unwholesome roots, and the three fires. Greed refers to your selfishness, misplaced desire, attachment, and grasping for happiness and satisfaction outside of yourself. Hatred refers to your anger, aversion and repulsion toward unpleasant people, circumstances, and even toward your own uncomfortable feelings. Delusion refers to your ...

Mind wandering, independent thought, spontaneous thinking, free associating, creative imagining are some of the terms to describe what occurs to your mind when you notice its functioning, or when you allow it the freedom to be in its natural condition: open, aware and spontaneously fluid. Freedom of mind is being increasingly declared as undesirable. Seduced by a ...

There is no word in the English language for a parent who loses a child. When our parents die we are orphans. When our spouse dies, we are widowed. When a child dies we are speechless. In the natural order of things, parents are not meant to bury their children. You must readapt to a new ...

What do you want me to be when I grow up? I want you to be a good Human being. Who is a good Human being? The one who is selfless (meaning without Ego), caring, loving and respectful. You live in a fast-paced Society where life is mechanical. Earning more money matters the most and making it quick is ...

Living life is about examining life through reason, nature’s greatest gift to humanity. The importance of reason in sensing and examining life is evident in all phases of life. Reason lets Human beings participate in life, to be Human is to think, appraise, and explore the World, discovering new sources of material and spiritual pleasure. Yet not ...

Every present moment is the happiest moment. You only have to realize it. Happiness is already at your door, you just have to open the door and our heart to let it enter. It is already within you. The simplest and easiest way to feel the happiness within you, and make yourself instantly calm and happy ...

The one thing that seems secure is a truth that is hard to hear in the context of a dominator culture with an obsession with the material World. And that truth is that nothing lasts. Nothing lasts. You know, your enemies will fade. Your friends will fade. Your fortune, your poverty, your disappointments, your dreams - ...

You do not need a new job or a new passport, a new partner or a new home, a miracle or a winning lottery ticket. All you have to do is decide: I want more freedom in my life. I want to change my life and take action. Stop spending on credit card, make it a debit card. ...

It is a strange thing to realise and accept your mortality at 26 years young. It is just one of those things you ignore. The days tick by and you just expect they will keep on coming; until the unexpected happens. I always imagined myself growing old, wrinkled and grey - most likely caused by the ...

I wish I had had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. When you realize that your life is almost over and you look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. You have not honored even a half of your ...

You have wrong perception on your self and on the other. And the other has wrong perception on themselves and on you, and that is the cause of fear, of violence, of hatred. That is why trying to remove wrong perceptions is the only way to peace, and that is why Nirvana is, first of all, ...

What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. How we talk about belief, how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than ...

One thing for certain in life is that it has both its ups and downs. A myth however is that happiness is based on the quantity of these ups and downs, the more good moments you have rather than bad moments, then the more happy you will be overall. Life is not about the quantity of ups and downs, ...

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. - Chinese saying There are moments in your life when you realize the true meaning of life and ...