[e-nspirations] If you want to be happy

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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want 
to be happy, practice compassion."
-- Dalai Lama
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Picture the last time you helped a baby take her first steps. She 
stood up, wobbled a bit, and fell. Her efforts warmed your heart. 
You were happy with each of her awkward movements and encouraged 
her with every emotion in you. Not once did you say, "Just stand 
up and walk!" Nor did you unkindly and impatiently say under your 
breath, "Hurry up!" or "You can't do anything right!" or "How 
stupid of you!" 

Yet, how many times in our impatience with ourselves do we berate 
ourselves with an internal monologue of hostile and negative 
static? Do we know how much better we might feel when we are 
gentle, encouraging and kind to ourselves? Just for today, when 
you make a mistake, be as gentle with yourself as you would be 
with a child. Treating ourselves with compassion helps us to 
challenge our own self-criticisms.

by Jean Kelley

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