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The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.

Sharon Salzberg

If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
SHARON SALZBERG

Deep Ourselves Pain Philosophy
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
SHARON SALZBERG

Attachment Desire Existence
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
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
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.
SHARON SALZBERG

Hate Mindset Science Thinking
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
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
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
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
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Let Go Ourselves
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
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Control Learning Let Go Moments

The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.

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