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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.

Sharon Salzberg

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Kind Life Religious
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
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
Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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Compassion Life Resilence Strong
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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Anger Compassion Feeling Honesty Ourselves Pain View
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
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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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
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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Darkness Deep
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Discover Kill Nature Ourselves Simplicity
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace 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
For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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Connection Love Peace Reflection Simplicity
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual

The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.

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