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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

Sharon Salzberg

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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Compassion Life Resilence Strong
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
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
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
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
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
$Sharon Salzberg Quote - Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.$

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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Change Experience Light Love Philosophy Science
The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
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
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy

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