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Rick Hanson

Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

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  • Kamila Tatubayevafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    “I am this body apart from the world,
  • Kamila Tatubayevafez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    Well, who is the one person in the world you have the greatest power over? It’s your future self. You hold that life in your hands, and what it will be depends on how you care for it.
  • Kamila Tatubayevafez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    Paradoxically, it takes time to become what we already are.
  • Kamila Tatubayevafez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    Then—with time, effort, and skillful means—virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom gradually strengthen and you feel happier and more loving.
  • Kamila Tatubayevafez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    Wisdom is a matter of making choices, such as letting go of lesser pleasures for the sake of greater ones
  • Kamila Tatubayevafez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    frustrated when we can’t have what we want, and disappointed when what we like ends. We suffer that we suffer. We get upset about being in pain, angry about dying, sad about waking up sad yet another day. This kind of suffering—which encompasses most of our unhappiness and dissatisfaction—is constructed by the brain. It is made up. Which is ironic, poignant—and supremely hopeful.
  • Kamila Tatubayevafez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    But our vastly more developed brain is fertile ground for a harvest of suffering. Only we humans worry about the future, regret the past, and blame ourselves for the present
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