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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

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
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
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
We 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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Destruction Different Old Young
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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Faith Freedom Growth Mindset Wisdom
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
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
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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Afraid Art Experience Feeling
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
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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Difficult Feeling Life Love Reality Strength
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power

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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