So many songs, poems and expressions shine light on love, but what does it mean to individuals?I went on a journey to ask as many people as possible,what does love mean?how do you show love?how do you feel loved?Below are some of the findings thus far.

What Is Love?

Most people express their love in this way.Exciting, igniting and full of passion.Fire is the shortest example of life. For it to burn, it must consume what gives it life. A life taken for a life given.Fire provides warmth but at the slightest absence of attention, one can lose control of a flame that could burn them to their bones.Treat this love with care and learn to dump a bucket of water over a fire you’ve lost control over.

The Love Of fire

Not many compare love to water, but I think it’s one of the most important types of love.Shapeshifting, everlasting and full of nourishment.Water the things and people you love, daily… not just on holidays. Anytime is a time for love. And water gives without expecting anything in return, in my opinion, an important part of this love.

Love Of Water

For the moments that wiz by.A polite gesture or laughter with a stranger. A moment that passes by before you realize it’s gone.Don’t be afraid to love “pass-by” moments. Be present in the moment and be kind to those you pass by. This kind of love can lift a strangers day or even save a life.

Love Of Wind

The base, where it all starts and ends.The love of your family and closest friends.It’s always there, but don’t take it for granted as if you don’t care for your land, it goes to waste. Water your land, care for it and protect it.

Love Of Earth

The love that most think of last but, I feel should take priority over all.Love is easier to give and receive when you value who you are. When insecurities and values are present, love comes naturally, even in hard times.You’ve already made it… you are worthy, enjoy life, explore yourself and learn to love yourself.Love is contagious.

Love Of Self

After asking this question to so many people, I realize we don’t talk about love enough.We assume we all see, give and receive love the same way. But we don’t.Ask your partner, family and friends this question, it will give you lots to think about. Learn to express and talk about love if you want to be loved. Love has 0 expectations and 0 assumptions. Love gives, lifts and empowers but it doesn’t owe anyone anything.To read the poem I wrote about the elements of Love <a href="https://thinkofitthisway.com/the-elements-of-love">click here</a>

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What is Love? How do you feel loved? How do you love?

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Calmness is a human superpower. The ability to not overreact or take things personally keeps your mind clear and your heart at peace.

You can't control everything that happens to you. You can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power.

Inner peace begins the moment you take a deep breath and choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions

Challenge yourself to choose one of these quotes each day, and then sit for a few minutes while repeating it silently in your mind. See how doing so gradually changes the way you think through life's twists, turns, and crossroads.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The author encourages readers to rethink what laziness means. Instead of seeing it as a flaw, it can be viewed as a time for rest and rejuvenation.

1. Redefining Laziness

Taking breaks allows the mind and body to recover, leading to greater creativity and problem-solving abilities. Laziness can help prevent burnout.

2. Benefits of Downtime

The book emphasizes focusing on doing fewer tasks but doing them well, rather than trying to do everything at once. This can lead to more meaningful achievements.

3. Quality Over Quantity

Practicing mindfulness and engaging in relaxing activities can improve mental health. Finding joy in simple pleasures is essential for overall well-being.

4. Mindfulness and Relaxation

Learning to say no and setting limits on commitments can help create space for relaxation and personal time.

5. Setting Boundaries

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A motivational book for beginners! Do you constantly feel unmotivated to work on your dreams? If the answer is yes, then this book is for you. Laziness stops us from enjoying the little time we have. It doesn't help you accomplish your goals. It stops you from starting anything new. It makes your life miserable. This book will teach you: <ul><li>how to overcome laziness</li><li>how to stop procrastination</li><li>how to improve your productivity</li></ul>

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"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

The true value of self-help books comes from applying what you learn. Reading is only helpful if you act on it.

1. Action Over Knowledge

"The faintest ink is better than the best memory."

Keep track of important lessons by highlighting and taking notes. This helps reinforce ideas and makes it easier to revisit key points.

2. Take Notes

"Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain."

Embrace discomfort, like taking cold showers or facing challenges head-on. The more you confront your fears, the more control you gain over them.

3. Overcome Fears

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Not all self-help advice will work for everyone. Adapt lessons to fit your unique personality and circumstances.

4. Customize Advice

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct, and control your own environment."

Self-help books can offer guidance, but ultimately, you are responsible for your growth. Take inspiration, but apply it in your own way.

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"And he came back after an hour, he came back after two hours, looked through the small window, saw Siddhartha standing, in the moon light, by the light of the stars, in the darkness."

Lesson 1: Patience

"A goal stood before Siddhartha, a single goal: to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of wishing, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sorrow. Dead to himself, not to be a self any more, to find tranquility with an emptied heart, to be open to miracles in unselfish thoughts, that was his goal. Once all of my self was overcome and had died, once every desire and every urge was silent in the heart, then the ultimate part of me had to awake, the innermost of my being, which is no longer my self, the great secret."

Lesson 2: Letting Go Of The Self

"What is meditation? What is leaving one’s body? What is fasting? What is holding one’s breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life."

Lesson 3: Meditation

"It took me a long time and am not finished learning this yet, oh Govinda: that there is nothing to be learned! There is indeed no such thing, so I believe, as what we refer to as ‘learning’. There is, oh my friend, just one knowledge, this is everywhere, this is Atman, this is within me and within you and within every creature. And so I’m starting to believe that this knowledge has no worser enemy than the desire to know it, than learning."

Lesson 4: Learning

"[Salvation] has come to you in the course of your own search, on your own path, through thoughts, through meditation, through realizations, through enlightenment. It has not come to you by means of teachings! [...] nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! You will not be able to convey and say to anybody [...] in words and through teachings what has happened to you in the hour of enlightenment! [...] This is why I am continuing my travels—not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself"

Lesson 5: Finding Your Own Path

"It was the self, the purpose and essence of which I sought to learn. It was the self, I wanted to free myself from, which I sought to overcome. But I was not able to overcome it, could only deceive it, could only flee from it, only hide from it. Truly, no thing in this world has kept my thoughts thus busy, as this my very own self, this mystery of me being alive, of me being one and being separated and isolated from all others, of me being Siddhartha! And there is no thing in this world I know less about than about me, about Siddhartha!"

Lesson 6: Knowing Yourself

"I do not want to kill and dissect myself any longer, to find a secret behind the ruins. Neither Yoga-Veda shall teach me any more, nor Atharva-Veda, nor the ascetics, nor any kind of teachings. I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha."

Lesson 7: Being Your Own Student

"He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colourful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself. […] The purpose and the essential properties were not somewhere behind the things, they were in them, in everything."

Lesson 8: The Purpose Of Everything

"When someone reads a text, wants to discover its meaning, he will not scorn the symbols and letters and call them deceptions, coincidence, and worthless hull, but he will read them, he will study and love them, letter by letter."

Lesson 9: Looking Deeper

"Both, the thoughts as well as the senses, were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them, both had to be listened to, both had to be played with, both neither had to be scorned nor overestimated, from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived. He wanted to strive for nothing, except for what the voice commanded him to strive for, dwell on nothing, except where the voice would advise him to do so. [...] To obey like this, not to an external command, only to the voice, to be ready like this, this was good, this was necessary [...]"

Lesson 10: Listening To Yourself

"[A] very beautiful river, I love it more than anything. Often I have listened to it, often I have looked into its eyes, and always I have learned from it. Much can be learned from a river. […] This too, I have learned from the river: everything is coming back! You too, Samana, will come back."

Lesson 11: Coming Back

"[L]ove can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen."

Lesson 12: Love

"This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal [...]. Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. [...] This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. [...] Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast."

Lesson 13: Reaching A Goal

"She taught him, that lovers must not part from one another after celebrating love, without one admiring the other, without being just as defeated as they have been victorious, so that none of them should start feeling fed up or bored and get that evil feeling of having abused or having been abused."

Lesson 14: Admiring Each Other

"Too much knowledge had held him back [...] so much doing and striving for that goal! Full of arrogance, he had been [...]. Into this spirituality, his self had retreated, there it sat firmly and grew, while he thought he would kill it by fasting and penance. Now he saw it and saw that the secret voice had been right, that no teacher would ever have been able to bring about his salvation. Therefore, he had to go out into the world, lose himself to lust and power, to woman and money, [...] until Siddhartha the lustful, Siddhartha the greedy could also die."

Lesson 15: Embracing Your Path

"This was among the ferryman’s virtues one of the greatest: like only a few, he knew how to listen. Without him having spoken a word, the speaker sensed how Vasudeva let his words enter his mind, quiet, open, waiting, how he did not lose a single one, awaited not a single one with impatience, did not add his praise or rebuke, was just listening. Siddhartha felt, what a happy fortune it is, to confess to such a listener, to bury in his heart his own life, his own search, his own suffering."

Lesson 16: The Art Of Listening

"The river has taught me to listen, from it you will learn it as well. It knows everything, the river, everything can be learned from it.""But more than Vasudeva could teach him, he was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion."

Lesson 17: Learning From Nature

"Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything hostile in the world gone and overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as time would have been put out of existence by one’s thoughts?"

Lesson 18: Time And Suffering

"And time after time, his smile became more similar to the ferryman’s, became almost just as bright, almost just as thoroughly glowing with bliss […]. There was something about this ferry and the two ferrymen which was transmitted to others, which many of the travellers felt. […] The curious people asked many questions, but they got no answers, and they found neither sorcerers nor wise men, they only found two friendly little old men, who seemed to be mute and to have become a bit strange and gaga."

Lesson 19: The Enlightened Smile

"For a long time he knew that there was nothing standing between Gotama and him any more, though he was still unable to accept his teachings. No, there was no teaching a truly searching person, someone who truly wanted to find, could accept. But he who had found, he could approve of any teachings, every path, every goal, there was nothing standing between him and all the other thousand any more who lived in that what is eternal, who breathed what is divine."

Lesson 20: Wisdom

"Kamala never stopped looking into his eyes. She thought about her pilgrimage to Gotama, which she wanted to take, in order to see the face of the perfected one, to breathe his peace, and she thought that she had now found him in his place, and that it was good, just as good, as if she had seen the other one."

Lesson 21: Divinity Is Everywhere

"[…] and the feeling of this both being present and at the same time real, the feeling of eternity, completely filled every aspect of his being. Deeply he felt, more deeply than ever before, in this hour, the indestructibility of every life, the eternity of every moment."

Lesson 22: Eternity

"'I sat here, I was listening to the river. A lot it has told me, deeply it has filled me with the healing thought, with the thought of oneness.' 'You’ve experienced suffering, Siddhartha, but I see: no sadness has entered your heart.' 'No, my dear, how should I be sad? I, who have been rich and happy, have become even richer and happier now. My son has been given to me.'"

Lesson 23: Happiness

"Kamala has died on the same bed on which my wife had died a long time ago. Let us also build Kamala’s funeral pile on the same hill on which I had then built my wife’s funeral pile."

Lesson 24: Honouring The Dead

"You don’t force him, don’t beat him, don’t give him orders, because you know that ‘soft’ is stronger than ‘hard’, water stronger than rocks, love stronger than force. [...] Don’t you shackle him with your love? Don’t you make him feel inferior every day, and don’t you make it even harder on him with your kindness and patience? Don’t you force him [...] to live in a hut with two old banana-eaters, to whom even rice is a delicacy, whose thoughts can’t be his, whose hearts are old and quiet and beat in a different pace than his? Isn’t he forced, isn’t he punished by all this?"

Lesson 25: When Love Is Too Much

"Which father, which teacher had been able to protect him from living his life for himself, from soiling himself with life, from burdening himself with guilt, from drinking the bitter drink for himself, from finding his path for himself? Would you think, my dear, anybody might perhaps be spared from taking this path? That perhaps your little son would be spared, because you love him, because you would like to keep him from suffering and pain and disappointment? But even if you would die ten times for him, you would not be able to take the slightest part of his destiny upon yourself."

Lesson 26: Protecting Someone

"But now, since his son was here, now he, Siddhartha, had also become completely a childlike person, suffering for the sake of another person, loving another person, lost to a love, having become a fool on account of love. Now he too felt, late, once in his lifetime, this strongest and strangest of all passions, suffered from it, suffered miserably, and was nevertheless in bliss, was nevertheless renewed in one respect, enriched by one thing."

Lesson 27: The Feeling Of Love

"But him, you shall let run along, my friend, he is no child any more, he knows how to get around. He’s looking for the path to the city, and he is right, don’t forget that. He’s doing what you’ve failed to do yourself. He’s taking care of himself, he’s taking his course. Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you’re suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you’ll soon laugh for yourself."

Lesson 28: Letting Your Children Go

"Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that he was not allowed to cling to him. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine."

Lesson 29: Loving Someone From Afar

"From this petrified state, he was awoken by a hand touching his shoulder. Instantly, he recognised this touch, this tender, bashful touch, and regained his senses. He rose and greeted Vasudeva, who had followed him. And when he looked into Vasudeva’s friendly face, into the small wrinkles, which were as if they were filled with nothing but his smile, into the happy eyes, then he smiled too. Now he saw the bananas lying in front of him, picked them up, gave one to the ferryman, ate the other one himself."

Lesson 30: Support

"Though he was near perfection and was bearing his final wound, it still seemed to him as if those childlike people were his brothers, their vanities, desires for possession, and ridiculous aspects were no longer ridiculous to him, became understandable, became lovable, even became worthy of veneration to him."

Lesson 31: Loving Everything

"[...] there was nothing the knowledgeable one, the thinker, had to put him above them except for one little thing, a single, tiny, small thing: the consciousness, the conscious thought of the oneness of all life. And Siddhartha even doubted in many an hour, whether this knowledge, this thought was to be valued thus highly [...]. In all other respects, the worldly people were of equal rank to the wise men, were often far superior to them, just as animals too can, after all, in some moments, seem to be superior to humans in their tough, unrelenting performance of what is necessary."

Lesson 32: Noone Is Above Or Below You

"Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. Slowly this blossomed in him, was shining back at him from Vasudeva’s old, childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, smiling, oneness."

Lesson 33: Oneness

"[...] he remembered how he [...] had forced his father to let him go to the penitents, [...] how he had gone and had never come back. Had his father not also suffered the same pain for him, which he now suffered for his son? Had his father not long since died, alone, without having seen his son again? Did he not have to expect the same fate for himself? Was it not a comedy, a strange and stupid matter, this repetition, this running around in a fateful circle?""[...] everything came back, which had not been suffered and solved up to its end, the same pain was suffered over and over again."

Lesson 34: Suffering

"Siddhartha felt more and more that this was no longer Vasudeva, no longer a human being who was listening to him, that this motionless listener was absorbing his confession into himself like a tree the rain, that this motionless man was the river itself, that he was God himself, that he was the eternal itself. [...] He felt, that he was now seeing old Vasudeva as the people see the gods, and that this could not last; in his heart, he started bidding his farewell to Vasudeva."

Lesson 35: Experiencing Enlightenment

"And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life. [...] this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection."

Lesson 36: Om

"His wound blossomed, his suffering was shining, his self had flown into the oneness. In this hour, Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate, stopped suffering. On his face flourished the cheerfulness of a knowledge, which is no longer opposed by any will, which knows perfection, which is in agreement with the flow of events, with the current of life, full of sympathy for the pain of others, full of sympathy for the pleasure of others, devoted to the flow, belonging to the oneness."

Lesson 37: Oneness

"When someone is searching, [...] then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don’t see, which are directly in front of your eyes."

Lesson 38: Searching And Finding

"[W]isdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.""Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught."

Lesson 39: Knowledge Vs. Wisdom

"The opposite of every truth is just as true! [...] any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words [...] A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. It does really seem like this, because we are subject to deception, as if time was something real. Time is not real [...] And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception."

Lesson 40: Deception

"The sinner, which I am and which you are, is a sinner, but in times to come he will be Brahma again, he will reach the Nirvana, will be Buddha—and now see: these ‘times to come’ are a deception, are only a parable! [...] No, within the sinner is now and today already the future Buddha, his future is already all there, you have to worship in him, in you, in everyone the Buddha [...] All sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life."

Lesson 41: Perfection Is In Everything

"In deep meditation, there is the possibility to put time out of existence, to see all life which was, is, and will be as if it was simultaneous, and there everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is [...]."

Lesson 42: Everything Exists Simultaneously

"I have experienced on my body and on my soul that I needed sin very much, I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how to give up all resistance, in order to learn how to love the world, in order to stop comparing it to some world I wished, I imagined, some kind of perfection I had made up, but to leave it as it is and to love it and to enjoy being a part of it."

Lesson 43: Everything Happens For A Reason

"Deeply, he bowed, touching the ground, before him who was sitting motionlessly, whose smile reminded him of everything he had ever loved in his life, what had ever been valuable and holy to him in his life."

Lesson 44: Seeing Perfection

A collection of my favourite quotes and lessons from the book – although no number of quotes could ever fully capture the magic of this inspiring masterpiece.

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book’s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse’s time, synthesizing disparate philosophies–Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism–into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man’s search for meaning. It is the story of the quest of Siddhartha, a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege and comfort to seek spiritual fulfillment and wisdom. On his journey, Siddhartha encounters wandering ascetics, Buddhist monks, and successful merchants, as well as a courtesan named Kamala and a simple ferryman who has attained enlightenment. Traveling among these people and experiencing life’s vital passages–love, work, friendship, and fatherhood–Siddhartha discovers that true knowledge is guided from within.

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Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game, which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society. In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. 

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“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.” M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled

I have had this book in my possession for several years, but only recently have I decided to delve in and take in all that Dr. Peck has to offer regarding my personal journey through this life. And our journeys are personal, aren't they? We journey side by side, yet alone—such a paradox. Most of us don't like to voice how difficult life can truly be. It is easier to push it away and create a happier vision than to delay the gratification of something much better once we deal with our said problems. This book deals with such things. Here are the nuggets of wisdom that spoke to me.

The Journey of Self-Discovery

“When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we avoid the growth that problems demand from us. “

*delaying of gratification
*acceptance of responsibility
*dedication to truth
*balancing

Tools For Dealing With The Pain Of Problems Constructively.

“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.” In other words-deal with it.

“To willingly confront a problem early before we are forced to confront it by circumstances, means to put aside something pleasant or less painful. It is choosing to suffer now in the hope of future gratification., rather than choosing present gratification in the hope that future suffering will not be necessary.”

“Reality is that when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away. “

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance”

Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

“A life of total dedication to truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.”

“To be free, people must assume total responsibility for themselves, but in doing so, must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that isn't truly ours. Balancing is the discipline that gives us flexibility. “

“Those things that hurt is instruct” Benjamin Franklin

"Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional experience, Dr M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist, suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding. He discusses the nature of loving relationships- how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become one's own person and how to be a more sensitive parent. This is a book that can show you how to embrace reality and yet achieve serenity and a richer existence. Hugely influential, it has now sold over ten million copies - and has changed many people's lives round the globe. It may change yours."

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The Elements of Love, Three Questions

40 Quotes for Calming Your Mind When You Are at a Crossroads in Life

The Art of Laziness

I read 100 self-help books. Here’s what I learned…

Siddhartha

The Road Less Travelled

The Transformative Power of Gratitude

Rule 80/20

Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

It's time to Read like a Pro.

It's time to
Read like a Pro.