If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
SHARON SALZBERGForgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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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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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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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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We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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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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Let the breath lead the way.
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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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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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