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.
SHARON SALZBERGSometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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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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Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
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The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.
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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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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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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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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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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Let the breath lead the way.
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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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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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