Another book! -
Do you think it is possible to live life and love to the fullest with equanimity? Or, are you convinced that love, so often full of passion, emotion, and feeling, does not easily fit with the idea of equanimity? This is worth looking at, because love and equanimity are so basic and necessary to living a fulfilled life.Love gives you a heart connection to others; it is the essence of what is good and giving and nourishing in life. Equanimity centers you in difficult times, as well as helps you let go of what you cannot change. Both love and equanimity have a long history of being linked. It was more than 2,500 years ago, for example, that the historical Gautama Siddhartha (later known as Buddha) discovered that loving-kindness and equanimity were two timeless values he would need to perfect within himself in order to awaken and attain Buddha-hood. He described ten values in all - generosity, effort, patience, ethics, wisdom, concentration, truthfulness, resoluteness, loving-kindness and equanimity. I like to call these values a path to "living kindness" in daily life.
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Living Life with Living Kindness by Donald Altman
