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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.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
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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Connection Love Peace Reflection Simplicity
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
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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Destruction Different Old Young
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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Phone Science Technology
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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Afraid Art Experience Feeling
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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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves

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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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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