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We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

Sharon Salzberg

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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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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Flower Healing Nature
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Destruction Different Old Young
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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Faith Heart Ourselves Value Worth
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
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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Experience Freedom Humanity Joy Spirit Willing
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
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
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story

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