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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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...

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get...

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get...

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.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by...

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by...

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.

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...

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...

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...

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted...

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted...

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves,...

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves,...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and...

Empathy depends not only on one's ability to identify someone else's emotions but also on...

Empathy depends not only on one's ability to identify someone else's emotions but also on...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him...The land...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him...The land...

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.