By Juliana Breines — 2015
Research-based tips that draw from the GGSC’s new website, Greater Good in Action.
Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu
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There are two essential elements to the spiritual path says this popular teacher from the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa: understanding that you’re already enlightened, already perfect in wisdom right here and now, and accessing that natural wakefulness through spiritual practice.
This video features a short guided meditation from the Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy - Professor Paul Gilbert.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
“My mind is so busy, I really need to meditate.” “My mind is so busy, there’s no way I can meditate.
A friend criticizes you. You grow impatient with someone you’re trying to help. A cell phone user annoys you on a train.
Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there’s a catch: it matters how we help.
Gratitude and generosity go hand in hand. The more we appreciate our lives, the more we want to give to others. In Radical Generosity, best-selling author M. J. Ryan provides tools for expressing thanks.
Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life.
In the tradition of the bestselling book The One Minute Manager, authors Ken Blanchard and S. Truett Cathy, entrepreneur and founder of Chic-fil-A restaurants, present The Generosity Factor—a parable that demonstrates the virtues of generosity.
MATTHEW KELLY’S BOOKS AND IDEAS have been inspiring men, women, and children of all ages for thirty years. Now he directs our attention toward a single idea that has the power to inject our lives with limitless meaning and purpose, while at the same time transforming the world.