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When all your desires are distilled, you will cast just two votes: To love more, and be happy.

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Hafez (the pseudonym of Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī) was a fourteenth-century Persian poet. His still-celebrated collection of lyric and mystic poems is generally considered the pinnacle of Persian literature, often focusing on divine love, the joys of wine, and religious hypocrisy.

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Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill

In this groundbreaking book, Matthieu Ricard makes a passionate case for happiness as a goal that deserves at least as much energy as any other in our lives.

Matthieu Ricard, Daniel Goleman (foreword)

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Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness

Mother Teresa. The Dalai Lama. Nelson Mandela. Gandhi. Some admire such figures from afar and think, "How special they are; I could never be like that." But, as John Makransky has learned, the power of real and enduring love lies within every one of us.

John Makransky, Lama Surya Das (foreword)

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Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh

bell hooks meets with Thich Nhat Hanh to ask: How do we build a community of love?

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Toward a Worldwide Culture of Love

The practice of love, says bell hooks, is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. She traces her thirty-year meditation on love, power, and Buddhism, and concludes it is only love that transforms our personal relationships and heals the wounds of oppression.

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For many of us, opening our hearts to ourselves may be the hardest part of the path. John Welwood on how and why meditation helped him do it—unconditionally.

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The Dalai Lama: Happiness from Within

In this essay, I discuss what enduring happiness means according to the Buddhist perspective and the ways in which the Dalai Lama embodies this enduring happiness.

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Alan Watts: How to See Through the Game—The Secret to Life :: Happiness

Truly the best thing you can do for yourself, to feel good that is, is to do good onto others. be it small or big, a nudge in the direction of positivity is a positive self reflection.

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Tenzin Palmo Jetsunma - the Difference Between Genuine Love and Attachment

Tenzin Palmo Jetsunma interviewed about romanticism that makes us confuse genuine love with attachment - and how it causes suffering in relationships.

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