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When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren__. Stop focusing on all of the physical features that you think people won__ like about you. Stop focusing on your inabilities or lack of talent. Instead, focus on those physical features that you know people already love about you. Focus on your abilities and the talents that you do have. You have been blessed with all of the above, and that makes you worth getting to know in my book.

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One of the parrots was very friendly with...Master of the Robes. He used to feed it nuts. As it nibbled from his fingers, he used to stroke its head, at which the bird appeared to enter a state of ecstasy. I very much wanted this kind of friendliness and several times tried to get a similar response, but to no avail. So I took a stick to punish it. Of course, thereafter it fled at the sight of me. This was a very good lesson in how to make friends: not by force but by compassion.

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Dalai Lama XIV

Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama

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My friendships have stopped being so exclusive and the guidelines have simplified.Does knowing me help someone I know become a better person?Am I becoming a better person knowing someone?Here__ how I know a relationship is working. When I__ with that person, I am happy. I look forward to seeing that person. I__ not afraid that that person will hurt me intentionally. I__ not hesitant to speak up if I do feel hurt. Knowing that person, challenges me to grow. Being around that person gives me comfort when I feel sad. That person is someone I want to celebrate with when things are great.I__e let go of expecting people to behave a certain way or to treat me a certain way. However, I feel I__ more idealistic about my relationships than I__e ever been. I want the most difficult thing you can ask a person and that is for them to be themselves, the good and the bad. I want authenticity where many find it hard to be authentic with themselves. It__ from our authentic selves where true connections are made.It__ from those true connections where I finally feel understood.