Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
SHARON SALZBERGWhen we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
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Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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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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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
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Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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