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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Sharon Salzberg

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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Phone Science Technology
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
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Feeling Freedom Happiness
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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Acceptance Disappointment Experience Goodness Growth Learning Opportunity
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
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
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
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
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
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
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
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

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

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