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“On my end-of-the-year report card all she wrote was “Is disruptive in class. Colors outside the lines. Talks out of turn.” When I showed it to my parents, they read it out loud to me, and my mom said, “Good for you, sweetheart.” And my dad gave me a little pat on the back.”
― A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
― A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
“Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]”
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]”
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“... although I knew what issues had been most difficult for me in my life, I may not have known the depth of the feeling I had about them. ... When those stories, with their feelings, returned ... I paid attention to them. What I tell people now it, 'Try to keep your mind hospitable. This needs to visit for a while. Don't be afraid.' [p. 122]”
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“Sadness isn't a kilesha, a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness is what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of karma does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].”
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
― Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
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