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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Lao Tzu

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The High Is Built on the Low

In persistence, sometimes you can reach a state of what the buddhists call enlightenment. And people may think, wow, how did that happen so quickly? But it's because of all those years, or perhaps even lifetimes, of persistence,. That finally you reached that precipice, like the water going over a giant waterfall. You know what? My teacher watching me, says, that the high is built on the low. We are already enlightened beings. We are buddhas. We are the people who are authentically ourselves. Why don't we start experimenting with how to embrace that and show that to the world?

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