We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
SHARON SALZBERGMindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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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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Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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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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Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.
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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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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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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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