When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
SHARON SALZBERGThe combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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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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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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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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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.
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If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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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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Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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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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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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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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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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