As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
SHARON SALZBERGWe 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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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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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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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
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