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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Sharon Salzberg

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
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
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
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
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.
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Deep Ourselves Pain Philosophy
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
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
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
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
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
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
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Easy Greatness Life Light Ourselves
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
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

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