If you’re determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so.

Mingyur Rinpoche

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

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• Recognizing the inherent potential of your mind
• Importance of the motivation
• Just observe it
• Trying to do your best
• Meditation on compassion
• Setting the tone for your entire day
• Being diligent
• Essentially good
• An experience of absolute well-being
• The need to look at the mind
• Never disturbed
• Becoming aware
• Experiencing the unlimited nature of the mind
• Mind’s unlimited capacity
• Coming to know yourself