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Should You Be Grateful for the Hardest Thing in Your Life?

By Scott Shute — 2017

One trait of highly successful people is having a positive outlook on life, always moving forward, always learning – especially when it’s hard. We’re not typically grateful for the “worst” things in our lives. If we want to have a growth mindset, we should be.

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Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart’s willingness to feel whatever is present.

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We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our tendency to get attached to impermanent experiences causes sorrow, lamentation and grief, because eventually we are separated from everything and everyone we love.

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If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

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Uncommon Gratitude: Alleluia for All That Is

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams often says that, no matter what, the proper stance of the Christian in the world is one of gratitude.

Joan Chittister, Rowan Williams

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Enough Already: The Power of Radical Contentment

In a world where fear, crisis, and insufficiency dominate the media and many personal lives, the notion of claiming contentment may seem fantastic or even heretical. Yet finding sufficiency right where you stand may be the answer to a world obsessed with lack.

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Alan Cohen: Let It Be Easy. Struggle Is Not Required.

Author of 20 inspirational books, Alan Cohen discusses enlightenment and finding your authentic self. Watch his story in this exclusive interview about getting more by doing less.

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Adyashanti - What Is Truth?

It’s not just mere opinion. It’s not the next conditioned thought that runs through your mind. Adyashanti reveals how telling the truth is an essential part of embodying your deepest experience of being.

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Adyashanti - Allowing Everything to Be as It Is

Is it possible to “allow everything to be as it is,” even when you are in the midst of suffering? Adyashanti discusses this foundational teaching and how it is often overlooked because it sounds so simple.

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Bill Hader on Accepting Anxiety

This is a clip from the Child Mind Institute’s special conversation with Bill Hader.

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