The Book of Joy

live or die. The only thing that kept a person alive was the acceptance of the reality of one’s exist ...

I 5. Forgiveness: Freeing Ourselves from the Past have seen remarkable instances of forgiveness carried out by ...

it going to help us if he were to go to prison? It won’t bring back our children.’ And there is an ...

humanity in this way. Indeed, no one is incapable of forgiving and no one is unforgivable.” “I want to m ...

compassion and a sense of concern for the Chinese hard-liners. I tried to take their anger, their fear, i ...

that isn’t to say he won’t speak out against the Chinese occupation and what they are doing inside Tibet ...

made a fist and pretended to hit himself. “With our human brain, we can think, If I hit back, what ...

activities are extremely common in the animal kingdom. Chimps kiss and make up, and it seems that many ...

Iwant to just come back to you, Archbishop, for our final question before tea,” I said. “Often the ...

sometimes shed a tear or two. I hope it was that maybe he had a premonition of his death and wanted ...

E 6. Gratitude: I Am Fortunate to Be Alive very day, think as you wake up, ‘I am fortunate to be aliv ...

raisin ice cream. Gratitude is the elevation of enjoyment, the ennobling of enjoyment. Gratitude is one of the k ...

you must confront reality as it is. When you are refugee, when you have lost your land, you cannot pre ...

Minutes, the interviewer asked whether he was angry at those who had put him in jail. He responded that he ...

W R “I just look at all the people who have so much but they are not happy. Yes, I did thirty long y ...

famous passage from Tsongkhapa, the fourteenth-century Tibetan master whose thoughts and writings were an impor ...

and depression. Gratitude may stimulate the hypothalamus, which is involved in regulating stress in the brain, a ...

T 7. Compassion: Something We Want to Become oo much self-centered thinking is the source of suffering. A co ...

empathy to acts of kindness, generosity, and other expressions of altruistic tendencies.” The Biblical Hebrew w ...

understand or to put into practice. The word compassion, as we have said, literally means ‘suffering with.’ ...