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Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
by Matthieu Ricard
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Quotes from Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

First we conceive the "I" and grasp onto it.
Then we conceive the "mine" and clink to the material world.
Like water trapped on the water wheel, we spin in circles, powerless.
I praise the compassion that embraces all beings.

Chandrakirti
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