Sogyal Rinpoche’s The Tibetan book of Living and Dying is a valuable guide for conscious living and dying. He says, two people have been living in all your life. One is the ego,garrulous,demanding,hysterical,calculating,the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to. As you listen more […]
Category Archives: Positive Psychology
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At the launch, the Dalai Lama said, “Modern education focusses on material values and has nothing to offer regarding inner peace. Only India has the ability to combine modern education with ancient knowledge which is necessary for fulfilment of human emotions.”
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In clinging to the cramped universe of the ego we have the tendency to be concerned exclusively with ourselves. The least setback upsets and discourages us. We are obsessed with our success, our failure, our hopes and our anxieties,
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Most methods derived by Western Psychology to effect lasting change in affective states focus above all on treating manifestly pathological conditions.
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Psychoanalysis is a temporary relief, because it cannot conceive of anything that transcends mind. A problem can be solved only when you can go beyond it. IF you cannot go beyond it, then you are the problem.
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Our first impulse might be to pick up some current event or to talk about how good or bad the food is or mention a few impressive things about ourselves. But if a date is the test of the heart then we must talk about things that help two people understand each other at a […]
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The Before trilogy consists of three films directed by Richard Linklater & starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as lovers Jesse and Céline at three different parts of their lives. The trilogy consists of the films Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). The trilogy has been a personal favourite of mine […]
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What is a conversation? it is much more than talk, which can be mere chatting about nothing in particular, or communication, which need to be no more than transmission of information to passive audience
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As for the co-relations highlighted by social psychology, in most cases it is unknown weather they act as causes or as consequences. We know that friendship goes with happiness, but are we happy because we have a lot of friends or do we have a lot of friends because we are happy?
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Often our expectations are wrong. We seek love and happiness from those who are incapable to give. and all of us make this mistake – that is why the world is in such a mess : we are all trying to give each other bliss, without bothering whether we have any of it ourselves in […]