Positive Attitude

Your attitude creates an atmosphere around you. Your attitude is the result of the way you think and feel. You communicate your attitude. Create a positive attitude, filled with good feelings, and even just your presence will do wonders in situations.

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The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

Music and Life

Where are you going? And, why? (Pretending like crazy that what you’re doing really matters)

I recently had my mind blown by an incredibly profound experience of what Buddhists call emptiness, or “dropped-off body-mind.” In such an experience “how it all is and what it’s all about” becomes stunningly obvious. All ideas dissolve–ALL ideas. Ideas, premises, beliefs, theories, maps of reality, are seen as inconsequential, insubstantial, uninteresting, beside the point. Instead, there’s just an infinitely deep peace, a vast expansiveness, a deep and profound knowingness about the essence of it all–and, the realization that all of this is who you are.

Read the full post here...
http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2009/07/13/where-are-you-going-and-why-pretending-like-crazy-that-what-youre-doing-really-matters/#more-51

Charter for Compassion

Greatest good

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. --Benjamin Disraeli

The How of Happiness

Gratitude

We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to be able to sit in such a beautiful room on such comfortable furniture, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. --Brother David Steindl-Rast