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.
SHARON SALZBERGEven 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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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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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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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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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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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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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 key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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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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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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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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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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