Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom
Tara Brach
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The Importance of Feeling Well-Being
When we are not grasping after happiness, but rather getting to yes, coming into that presence, it's actually the opposite of self-centered. In a story about Uruguay and political prisoner, I'll read you. A school teacher tortured in jail for having ideological ideas is visited by his daughter Malay who brings him a drawing of birds. She whispers in his ears, silly, don't you see? They're eyes. They're the eyes of the birds I've smuggled in for you. Now, trees are not forbidden, and the drawing gets through. The Daco praises her work and asks about the colored circles scattered in the treetops. Are they oranges? What fruit is it
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