thread: This is great - on being happy and people's judgements. Totally love it!

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  1. #1

    Oct 2008
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    I've chatted about this stuff when I saw a psychologist a few years back. It's like living in the now and accepting this moment for what it is and not worrying about the past or the future. There's a great book called The Power of Now which talks about this kind of thing.

    Awesome.

  2. #2

    Oct 2005
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    I see Byron Katie as the how to of Eckhart Tolle (author of The Power of Now).
    Living now is accepting that now is all there is. The past has gone the future isn't here so now is what is. It's so very helpful I agree MS.

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    Feb 2011
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    I'm not sure why I havent replied to this thread earlier lol. Thank you for your lovely comments, I really appreciate it.

    One night I simply started writing for myself, I sometimes like to keep a journal. What I wrote was basically a very small edited summary of my view of life.

    I will start a blog soon where I will go into much more details about my 'thoughts on happiness" and other things.

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    Jan 2006
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    Isn't that the underlying philosophy behind The Gruffalo? Perceptions and how they change due to the words of others is a big theme in that book and as such it's a key text in the Philosophy for Children scheme (can't you tell what I'm doing with DS atm?). But it is an important thought and a good thing to know - you can never hear it too many times or in too many different ways!