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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

Sharon Salzberg

The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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Difficult Feeling Life Love Reality Strength
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
It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.
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Ability Break Habit Light Perspective View
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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Bad Break Decision Disappointment Goodness People
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
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
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
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Let Go Ourselves
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
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
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
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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Attention Ourselves Philosophy Training
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

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