Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
SHARON SALZBERGIt 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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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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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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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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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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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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Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
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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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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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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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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 can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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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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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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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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