Compassion

Starting the 1st of January 2025, the blog will pick a ‘word of the week’, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – compassion.

Read The Compassionate Mind. Often, we have tried to cope with a life that can be stressful & hard. Developing compassion for oneself & others helps us win through life’s hardships to find a sense of inner peace, joy & beauty. Sometimes, we concentrate on ‘doing, achieving & having‘. Paul Gilbert shares how to cultivate the spirit of compassion for ourselves. Explores how compassion enables a calm & joyous state of mind. Not only does it help soothe distressing emotions, it actually increases a feeling of contentment & well-being. We learn basic mind training techniques to enhance our capacity for compassion.

The Compassionate Mind Workbook shares how compassion in the form of ideas & practices derived from the Compassion Focused Therapy may help alleviate challenges. A step-by-step guide to build our understanding of ourself, the skills needed for a compassionate mind & simple ways to rise above whatever we’re struggling with in life. The exercises & case stories provide an easy, understandable & practical way to develop compassion. The Compassionate Mind Workbook: a step-by-step guide to developing a compassionate self.

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Compassion

Starting the 1st of January 2025, the blog will pick a ‘word of the week’, to share & explore the significance of the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – compassion.

A Fearless Heart: How The Courage To Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives. Thupten Jinpa introduces a practice with a great life changing power – compassion. Based on the revolutionary course in Compassion Cultivation Training at Stanford that Jinpa helped to create, A Fearless Heart shows that compassion is a path through suffering, a key to robust health & an effective way to reach our goals.

Yet, we may fear compassion. We may worry either about being too compassionate with others or practicing too much self-compassion. Pulling from the latest Western research & traditional Buddhist psychology, Jinpa offers simple daily practices that will help us humbly train our compassion muscle for greater meaning, connection, joy & fulfilment.

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“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive & to do so with some passion & some compassion. We are each made for kindness, love & compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is, when we live unconditionally with these truths. Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures, the whole of nature & its beauty. Only empathy, compassion & understanding for others can bring us the tranquility & happiness we seek. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete” – Maya Angelou.

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Inspiration

Famous quotes for inspiration:

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be” – Emerson
“Faith is the bird that sees the dawn much before the darkness is gone” – Ayn Rand
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle” – Christian Larson
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” – Wayne Gretzky
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples” – Mother Teresa
“You become what you believe” – Oprah Winfrey
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity” – Amelia Earhart
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world” – Anne Frank
“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear” – George Addair
“Dream big and dare to fail” – Norman Vaughan
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try” – Beverly Sills
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop” – Confucius
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny” – Lewis
“Many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears” – Brown
“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” – Benjamin Franklin
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Get on” – Sheryl Sandberg
“I attribute my success to this, I never gave or took any excuse” – Florence Nightingale
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom” – Vincent van Gogh
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve” – Napoleon Hill
“Years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” – Mark Twain
“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” – Lincoln
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood” – Emerson
“You will face many defeats in life, never let yourself be defeated” – Maya Angelou
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game” – Babe Ruth
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin” – Tony Robbins
“In life we cannot do great things. We can do small things with great love” – Mother Teresa
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile” – Albert Einstein
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough” – Mae West
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life imagined” – Thoreau
“Greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising when we fall” – Mandela
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated” – Confucius
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Life is a long lesson in humility” – James Barrie
“Love the life you live. Live the life you love” – Bob Marley
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself” – G.B Shaw
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up” – Thomas Edison
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are” – E.E. Cummings
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are” – Beyoncé
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible!'” – Audrey Hepburn
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference” – Winston Churchill
“To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try” – Rosa Parks
“All our dreams come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” – Walt Disney
“Champions keep playing until they get it right” – Billie Jean King
“Whatever fear I have in me, my desire to win is always stronger” – Serena Williams
“Believe, just believe” – Aristotle
“If you’re going to take bold bets, they’re going to be experiments. You won’t know ahead of time if they’re going to work. Experiments are by their very nature prone to failure. But a few big successes compensate for dozens of things that didn’t work” – Jeff Bezos

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“I’ve failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. It is never too late to be who you might have been. Let not regrets take the place of dreams. Success is the sum of small efforts. Opportunities don’t happen, we create them. Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of only standing still. If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, just keep on moving” – Martin Luther King.

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“Inspiration is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow. Everything is within your power & your power is within you. You & you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story you are meant to tell. And, the world needs your story because the world needs your voice” – Kerry Washington.

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Famous quotes for inspiration:

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” – Aristotle
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong” – Ella Fitzgerald
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud” – Maya Angelou
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time” – Ruth Ginsburg
“When you put love out in the world, it travels. It can touch and reach people in ways that we never even expected” – Laverne Cox
“Don’t count the days, make the days count” – Muhammad Ali
“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything” – Geena Davis
“If you’re having fun, that’s when the best memories are built” – Simone Biles
“Hard things will happen. We will learn, grow resilient because of it” – Taylor Swift
“Your story is what you will always have. It’s something to own” – Michelle Obama
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist” – Oscar Wilde
“You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty” – Lady Gaga
“When you can’t find someone to follow, lead by example” – Roxane Gay
“There is no better compass than compassion” – Amanda Gorman
“A toxic desire is to be perfect. Challenge is to be whole” – Jane Fonda
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line” – Lucille Ball
“We cannot solve problems with the same kind of thinking that we employed when we came up with them” – Albert Einstein
“Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but it has left it to us to put these pieces together” – Diane McLaren
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation” – Herman Melville
“The pessimist sees a difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees an opportunity in every difficulty” – Winston Churchill
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too” – Paulo Coelho
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And, the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it” – Steve Jobs
“Try not to become a man of success, rather a man of value” – Albert Einstein
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new” – Augustine Mandino
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly and imaginatively” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“One positive thought in the morning can change your whole day” – Dalai Lama
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffet
“He that can have patience can have what he will” – Benjamin Franklin
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow” – Mary Radmacher
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” – Carl Sagan
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself” – Arianna Huffington
“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more” – Erica Jong
“If you change the way you look at things, things you look at change” – Wayne Dyer
“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it’s more important to heed the lessons of failure”- Bill Gates
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it” – Henry Ford
“Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart” – Drake
“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves” – Maria Edgeworth
“The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why” – Mark Twain
“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself, the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us, that’s where it’s at” – Jesse Owens
“Keep a little fire burning, however small, however hidden” – Cormac McCarthy
“What you do makes a difference, so you have to decide what kind of a difference do you want to make” – Jane Goodall
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different” – Coco Chanel
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen” – Michael Jordan
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller
“The only journey is the one within” – Rainer Rilke
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders” – Lao Tzu
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world” – Gandhi
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our challenges” – Ben Okri
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever” – Steve Jobs

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Passion

Starting the 1st of January 2025, the blog will pick a ‘word of the week’, to share & explore the significance of the selected word like passion, purpose, playfulness. Here’s an expression for the word – passion.

“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb & the summit lies the answer to the mystery – why do we climb? The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters. Passion. Challenge. It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. Great things happen when the men & mountain meet. The most beautiful view comes after the hardest climb. Go where you feel most alive.”

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Passion

“Horses are angels with hooves, sent to the earth to teach us about love, trust & the freedom of spirit. No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. A horse lends its rider the passion, the speed & the strength needed to win. Each time we ride, it is a leap towards achieving our dreams, a step closer to mastering a skill or a gallop away from our fears.”

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Happy New Year

My-Passion.blog wishes you Happy New Year 2025. Hope this year brings success, serenity, sweetness & sparkle.

It’s the 5th anniversary of the blog, on the WordPress platform. So far, it has reached 2 million views from over 75 countries.

Your support to the blog & its charities is truly appreciated. I want to thank my bestie, who motivated me to write, to pursue my passion, which led to the creation of the blog. Since, writing has been my lifeline.

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