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If one speaks or does a deed with a mind that is pure within, happiness then follows along like a never departing shadow.— Siddhārtha Gautama the Buddha
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As a lotus flower is born in water,
grows in water and rises out of water to
stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world,
raised in the world having overcome
the world, live unsoiled by the world.
━ Siddhārtha Gautama the Buddha.
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Loving-kindness Meditation Improves Health 
“The vagus nerve…helps the brain regulate heart rate and respiration, among other things, and high vagal function is associated with all sorts of good things, such as efficient regulation of glucose and inflammation as well as lower incidence of heart disease and diabetes. Those with high vagal function are statistically better at regulating their emotions, attention and behavior, too…
[R]esearch by Barbara Fredrickson, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Positivity, has shown that over a six-week course of ‘loving kindness’ meditation…subjects can raise their vagal function, reaping all the positive effects that come along with it. ‘Just as you can increase your muscle tone with physical training, so can you increase your vagal tone with emotional training,’ Fredrickson says.”
“If there is a remedy, then what is the use of frustration?
If there is no remedy, then what is the use of frustration?”
—Shantideva
If something can be done, take action. If nothing can be done, develop acceptance. Worrying is neither. It’s just paralysis. It’s a waste of energy at best, and toxic to mental and physical health at worst. No matter what the situation, something can always be done, whether it’s an external or internal change.
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