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When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Sharon Salzberg

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
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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Forgiveness Hurt People
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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Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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Anger Compassion Feeling Honesty Ourselves Pain View
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
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Act Faith Force Ideal True Understand Walk
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta ﬂows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
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Change Freedom Water
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
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
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.
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Deep Different Philosophy
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Control Learning Let Go Moments

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

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