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C OMPASSIONATE I NTEGRITY T RAINING A S ECULAR E THICS A PPROACH TO C ULTIVATING P ERSONAL , S OCIAL AND E NVIRONMENTAL F LOURISHING 6. Finally ask, “How do our inner qualities affect our happiness? How much control do we have over these qualities?” 7. Conclude by explaining, “As opposed to external sources of happiness, inner sources of happiness, with practice, can be more enduring, less contingent, and we can have more control over them. Working toward this is true ‘self-compassion’ in CIT.” C ENTER FOR C OMPASSION , I NTEGRITY AND S ECULAR E THICS | L IFE U NIVERSITY | M ARIETTA , G EORGIA -70-