A Life of Greatness
By listening you’ll learn why we should expect failure and how it is crucial to any kind of success.
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It is essential for those in caregiving roles to cultivate self-compassion alongside compassion for others, to create an inner atmosphere of kindness, expansiveness, and awareness in which resilience can flourish.
We call people who harm us enemies, but is that who they really are? When we see the person behind the label, say Buddhist teachers Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman, everyone benefits.
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A friend criticizes you. You grow impatient with someone you’re trying to help. A cell phone user annoys you on a train.
Distill the great spiritual teachings from around the world down to their most basic principles, and one thread emerges to unite them all: kindness.
“Buck up.” “Stop feeling sorry for yourself.” “Don’t ruin everything.