Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

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While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

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Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

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People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

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The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

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However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

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If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

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Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

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The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

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When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

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