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Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.

Sharon Salzberg

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
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
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.
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Ability Break Habit Light Perspective View
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
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
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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Flower Healing Nature
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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Attention Material Ourselves World
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
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
SHARON SALZBERG

Ability Connection Need Ourselves

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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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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