By John Lavitt — 2016
The Fix Q&A with Dr. Gabor Maté on addiction, the holocaust, the “disease-prone personality” and the pathology of positive thinking.
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CLEAR ALL
The author of Discovering Your Soul Signature shares his unexpected take on one of life’s hardest emotions—and how to get back to joy again.
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If you don’t practice joy, you will not survive this shit.
If you want more joy, get as intimate as possible with all of your emotions, illuminating and honoring the basic energy of each one. There is a kind of joy that sooner or later emerges from such exploration, the joy of simply being present at the heart of whatever we are feeling.
As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.