Give, what so ever you can give, share what so ever you can share, but share only out love, Don't think in terms of politics, of changing the world, otherwise you will be frustrated. Forget all about it. You do what so ever you o feel like doing.
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Greece the country of Dionysus, dancing with a glass on your head, dancing on the beach a la Zorba the Greek, dancing while drinking ouzo (the anise scented liquor I still cant smell without remembering a particularly potent night in 1997) and just dancing in general. Greeks know how to hae good time but alongside the big exuberant party spirit, there is a quieter , more contemplative way of pursing pleasure and happiness in Greece that is less well known beyond the country's 13,676 km coastline. Meraki is the idea of pouring yourself into something with love, care and passion - a precise soul enhancing pursuit that Greeks have excelled at for mllennia.Dimitra a painter and historian from Athens who recently relocated to rural Denmark in winter say Meraki is about passion. It isn't about whipping something together - it is doing it with attention and love and perhaps even a note of perfectionism. It means - here she presses here fingers together precise or deliberate. It is doing something with your soul. As a painter she tells me about a recent exhibition she gave at a local Greek run venue. Dimitra worked on all the pieces with meraki and was just arranging them on the walls of the venue when the owner appeared. She looked around the pieces then pointed at one and said, "You know it that paining doesn't sell, I think you should do more work on it." From anyone else this might have been interpreted as rude, from a fellow Greek Dimitra understood that it reflected a shared understanding of meraki (that and the trademark Greek honesty). The owner knew something made with meraki when she saw it and shared Dimitra's sense of perfectionism and care for the creations. But anything can be done with meraki. Dimitra tells me like preparing a meal or even setting the table, Meraki isn't about dialling it in or multitasking with a side plate in one hand and smart phone in the other; it is about focus. A dedication to the task at hand without distractions.
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The first practice of our life is to be deeply grateful that we are graced to be alive with a healthy body. Bring the thought of good health as one of the first thoughts each morning.
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Our habit to interfere has become so ingrained that you cannot even breathe without interference. If you watch your breathing, you will immediately see you have started to interfere. You begin takin deep breathes, or you start exhaling more. There is no need to interfere at all. Just let your breathe be as it is; your body knows exactly what it needs. If it needs more oxygen it will breathe more; if needs less oxygen it will breathe less.
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Jolly denotes a very English kind of cheerfulness that's something akin to godliness for your average English man or woman. While the idea of a stiff upper lip may be cliche from bygone days, there are still plenty of English folk who'd prefer to talk about the weather than their feelings.
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Eighty percent of Americans claim to be happy! But the situation is far from being as encouraging as it looks. Despite the improvement in material conditions, depression is now ten times as prevalent as it was in 1960 and affects an ever younger sector of the population. Forty years ago, the mean age of people succumbing to depression for the first time was twenty nine; today it's fourteen.
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So, nirvana means that a person has come to know that death is not really death and life is not really life, Once he has come to the realisation of both, there is no longer any built in program for him. He has let go of the program. He says, "Now I will go alone - a solitary bird in flight. " He goes completely alone, leaving everything behind.
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But what seems to be the problem? When we form a question, some fool turns up to answer it. Once a question is formulated, someone or other is bound to turn up with an answer for it-because someone will formulate the answer. This is how philosophy has come about. Philosophies are made of foolish answers to foolish questions. And the question remain right where they always were, unresolved.
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