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

Sharon Salzberg

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
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 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
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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Forget Kindness Love Ourselves Time Unity
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
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
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Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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Faith Freedom Growth Mindset Wisdom
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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Love Ourselves Self Love True

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

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