If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
SHARON SALZBERGLet the breath lead the way.
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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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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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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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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
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Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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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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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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