﻿When you lower yourself, the world elevates you.When you elevate yourself, the world lowers you.

A very modern dilemma: There are countless television channels, but nothing interesting to watch.Too many choices make people unhappy.Are you feeling confused or conflicted? Allow yourself a good night’s sleep. When you wake up the next day, the problem will seem lighter. It works, truly.

When you are feeling confused

<ol><li> people are not as interested in you as you had always believed.</li><li> not everyone has to like you</li><li>if we are brutally honest with ourselves, most things we do for others are in fact for ourselves</li></ol>

Three liberating insights

be humble and stop speaking ill of people.	Those who do not make enemies are more powerful than those who have the strength to fight them all and win.

Do you have enemies? 

When you are stressed out, be aware of your stress.When you are irritated, be aware of your irritation.When you are angry, be aware of your anger.As soon as you become aware of these feelings you are no longer lost in them.Your awareness allows you to witness them from the outside.Awreness is inherently pure, like the open sky.Stress, irritation, and anger can temporarily cloud the sky,but they can never pollute it.Negative emotions come and go like clouds, but the wide-open sky remains.

Be aware of what you feel

If you’ve been unable to change a bad situation, even after many attempts, you should change how you look at the situation.	Nothing is intrinsically good or bad.	Good or bad is always relative.	Compare your situation with someone’s that is worse. Now yours does not seem so bad after all.

How to change a bad situation

The reward for someone who works hard is more work.

A cruel irony

For unenlightened people, not every day is a good day, because they feel happy only when things happen the way they want them to.For enlightened people, every single day is a good day, because they feel free knowing that nothing can take away their wisdom.When an unenlightened person does good, he tries to leave his mark.When an enlightened person does good, he leaves no marks

Enlightened and unenlightened person

The multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world, by the Buddhist author of Love for Imperfect Things “Wise advice on how to reflect and slow down.” —Elle Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind? The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life. By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas—including relationships, love, and spirituality—Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.

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The multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world, by the Buddhist author of Love for Imperfect Things “Wise advice on how to reflect and slow down.” —Elle Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind? The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life. By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas—including relationships, love, and spirituality—Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.

Zen Buddhist teacher, bestselling author & founder of the School for Broken Hearts in Seoul.Born in South Korea and educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, he received formal monastic training from Haein monastery, South Korea and taught Asian religions at Hampshire College in Massachusetts for seven years.He is one of the most influential Zen monks in the world, with over 1.5 million followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. His first book, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down has been translated into more than 35 different languages and sold over four million copies.His second book, Love for Imperfect Things was the number one bestseller of the year 2016 in South Korea and became available in multiple languages in 2019.

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