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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.

Sharon Salzberg

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Happiness Kindness Let Go Right
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Change Control Effort Force Love Strength
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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Attention Experience Help Mindset Wisdom
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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Forgiveness Hurt People
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Fight Philosophy
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
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
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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Anger Compassion Feeling Honesty Ourselves Pain View
The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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Light See Yourself
Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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Attention Inspirational Yourself

You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.

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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.

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