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We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

Sharon Salzberg

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
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
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
Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
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
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
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’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
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Difference Experience Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See Story
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
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 need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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Forget Kindness Love Ourselves Time Unity

We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

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