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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.

Sharon Salzberg

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
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
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
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Fight Philosophy
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
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
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
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Creation Generosity Heart Joy Let Go Ourselves Space World
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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Compassion Feeling Love Spiritual Thinking
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
When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
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Acceptance Disappointment Experience Goodness Growth Learning Opportunity
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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Attention Ourselves Philosophy Training

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.

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