The Book of Joy

other people who are going through a similar situation. This perhaps is quite literally the birth of compassio ...

I 2. Humility: I Tried to Look Humble and Modest want to respond to your comment about being at the fune ...

higher than the others. What do you call this?” the Dalai Lama asked, tapping the base of his chair. “The ...

for the tea break. I explained that we still had a half hour but asked the Archbishop, whose energy leve ...

“Can you explain the role that humility plays in cultivating joy?” I asked, as the Archbishop started laughi ...

“But if you think you are just a normal person—one human being out of seven billion—you see there’s no reas ...

is essential to any possibility of joy. When we have a wider perspective, we have a natural understandi ...

when she handed him the book, and he took out his pen, she said, “You are Bishop Muzorewa, aren’t you?” None ...

make their daggers of self-doubt any less painful. I finally was able to fall asleep when I realized ...

“Really. Every day learning, learning.” “Yes, you are wonderful.” “Oh.” The Dalai Lama laughed. “I expect t ...

O 3. Humor: Laughter, Joking Is Much Better ne of the most stunning aspects of the week was how much of it ...

“It is much better when there is not too much seriousness,” the Dalai Lama responded. “Laughter, joking is ...

wrong. My weaponry, if you can call it that, was almost always to use humor, and especially self-denigrating ...

Humor was, as he said, a very powerful weapon. The Dalai Lama visited Belfast in northern Ireland afte ...

as I’ve seen over the years, is about bringing us together, not about separating us and putting anyone do ...

there is an evolutionary role for laughter and humor in managing the anxiety and stress of the unknown. ...

W 4. Acceptance: The Only Place Where Change Can Begin hen we had visited the Tibetan Children’s Village in January, ...

that happens to you.” You accept the inevitable frustrations and hardships as part of the warp and woof of ...

people, places, things, and circumstances in our lives, rather than accepting them. When we react, we stay loc ...

questions. The kind of acceptance that the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop were advocating is not passive. ...