Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and con… - Noah Levine

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Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Noah Levine

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Noah Levine (born 1971) is an American Buddhist teacher, author and counselor.

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