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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Sharon Salzberg

If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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Attention Material Ourselves World
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
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
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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Ability Connection Need Ourselves
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
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
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Let Go Ourselves
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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Bad Break Decision Disappointment Goodness People
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
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
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Change Control Effort Force Love Strength
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual

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