When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
SHARON SALZBERGWhen you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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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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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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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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The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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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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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
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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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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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We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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