The Five Things We Cannot Change : And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them - David Richo

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The Five Things We Cannot Change

And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

By: David Richo

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Paperback | 1 September 2006 | Edition Number 1

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David Richo distills 30 years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness - and the surprising secret to finding freedom and fulfillment.

"A lucid, thought-provoking, and illuminating" guide to finding fulfillment and "fluid acceptance of life as it is" (Martha Beck, life coach and New York Times-bestselling author)

Why is it that, despite our best efforts, many of us remain fundamentally unhappy and unfulfilled in our lives? In this provocative and inspiring book, David Richo distills thirty years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness-and the surprising secret to finding freedom and fulfillment.

There are certain facts of life that we cannot change-the unavoidable "givens" of human existence: (1) everything changes and ends, (2) things do not always go according to plan, (3) life is not always fair, (4) pain is a part of life, and (5) people are not loving and loyal all the time. Richo shows us that by dropping our deep-seated resistance to these givens, we can find liberation and discover the true richness that life has to offer.

Blending Western psychology and Eastern spirituality, and including practical exercises, Richo shows us how to open up to our lives-including what is frightening, painful, or disappointing-and discover our greatest gifts.

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"A lucid, thought-provoking, and illuminating book about the realities of human existence--a wonderfully useful guide to fluid acceptance of life as it is."--Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star and The Joy Diet

"I started highlighting splendid passages in this book and my highlighter ran dry. The whole book is splendid."--Brother David Steindl-Rast

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Introduction	p. xi
The Givens of Life
Everything Changes and Ends	p. 3
How We Avoid or Accept	p. 4
Attracted or Repelled	p. 5
A Changing Image in the Mirror	p. 8
What Makes Us So Controlling	p. 10
Nothing Separate	p. 13
A Two-Handed Practice	p. 15
Death and Renewal	p. 16
Things Do Not Always Go According to Plan	p. 20
Nature's Design	p. 23
Our Calling	p. 27
The Larger Life	p. 29
It All Balances in Love	p. 32
Life Is Not Always Fair	p. 34
Revenge or Reconcile?	p. 35
Why Does Harm Come to the Innocent?	p. 39
The Art of Taming Ego	p. 41
Commitments beyond Ego	p. 43
A Mindful Reply to Unfairness	p. 45
Pain Is Part of Life	p. 47
Are We Victims?	p. 51
A Yes to the Pain Nature Brings	p. 53
Being with the Suffering of Others	p. 55
When Cheer Doesn't Work	p. 59
The Fertile Void	p. 60
People Are Not Loving and Loyal All the Time	p. 65
The Lifelong Influence of Childhood	p. 68
Taking Care of Yourself As You Open to Others	p. 70
Givens of Adult Relating	p. 73
A Checklist on Boundaries in Our Relationships	p. 76
Egoless Love	p. 79
Refuges from the Givens	p. 82
Religion as a Refuge	p. 82
Religion and Refuge in Nature	p. 86
Three Refuges	p. 89
Distraction or Resource?	p. 91
Magical Thinking	p. 92
Backstreet Refuges	p. 94
Safety in No Refuge	p. 96
Wisdom within Us	p. 97
An Unconditional Yes to Our Conditioned Existence
How to Become Yes	p. 101
Loving-Kindness	p. 104
Tonglen Practice	p. 108
No Outside	p. 111
Nature Practices Yes	p. 112
Yes to Feelings	p. 116
Our Gifts from Nature	p. 118
How Feelings Become SAFE	p. 120
Love Liberates	p. 122
How Fear Holds Us Back	p. 124
The Life Span of a Feeling	p. 127
How Do We Receive the Feelings of Others?	p. 129
Tracking Our Feelings	p. 130
What Feelings Are Not	p. 132
Feelings Are Three-Dimensional	p. 135
A Yes to Who I Am	p. 137
Psychologically	p. 138
Spiritually	p. 140
Mystically	p. 142
Self or No-Self?	p. 144
A Stable Sense of Myself	p. 146
Epilogue	p. 155
About the Author	p. 161
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