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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

Sharon Salzberg

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
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Feeling Freedom Happiness
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
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
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
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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End Happiness Mind Right
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
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 find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Easy Greatness Life Light Ourselves
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Experience Mindset
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
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
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

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