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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then...

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then...

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor...

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor...

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

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

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is...

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is...

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions...

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions...

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or...

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or...

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal...

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal...

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training...

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training...

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from...

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from...

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't...

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't...

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are...

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are...

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

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

Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.

Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.