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

Sharon Salzberg

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
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 mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.
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Hate Mindset Science Thinking
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
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
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
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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Mind Science Understand
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
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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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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Anger Blame Commitment Fall Heart Willing
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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End Happiness Mind Right
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable

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

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