From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
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Zum Autor"Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy."
"How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships."
"Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness."
"As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about."
"To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better."
"So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings."