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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
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Difference Experience Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See Story
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Destruction Different Old Young
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Let Go Ourselves
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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Connection Eyes Fantasy Humble Reality Start
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.
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Deep Different Philosophy
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Kind Life Religious
Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta ﬂows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
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Change Freedom Water
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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Phone Science Technology
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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Attention Material Ourselves World

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

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