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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

Sharon Salzberg

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
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
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
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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Ability Connection Need Ourselves
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
Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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Difficult Feeling Life Love Reality Strength
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
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling 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
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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Creation Generosity Heart Joy Let Go Ourselves Space World
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
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation

If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

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