When compassion awakens in your heart, you’re able to be more honest with yourself.

Mingyur Rinpoche

from the book The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

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• Trying to do your best
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• Setting the tone for your entire day
• Being diligent
• Your mind just as it is
• What Buddhists mean by happiness
• Thinking of yourself as limited
• The best part of all
• Oh, this is how my mind works
• Neither rejecting nor accepting
• Importance of the motivation
• Recognizing the inherent potential of your mind
• Nothing more than the natural function of the mind
• Just observe it
• Essentially good
• An experience of absolute well-being
• The need to look at the mind
• Never disturbed
• Becoming aware
• Mind’s unlimited capacity