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Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

Sharon Salzberg

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
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
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
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
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
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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Change Forgiveness Pain Relationship Release Story Time
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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Afraid Art Experience Feeling
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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Attention Experience Help Mindset Wisdom
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Experience Mindset
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
When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
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Listen Love Story
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
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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Attention Material Ourselves World
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
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
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

Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

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