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

Sharon Salzberg

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Experience Mindset
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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Compassion Feeling Love Spiritual Thinking
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
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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End Happiness Mind Right
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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Anger Compassion Feeling Honesty Ourselves Pain View
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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Flower Healing Nature
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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Experience Freedom Humanity Joy Spirit Willing
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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Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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Change Forgiveness Pain Relationship Release Story Time
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Let Go Ourselves
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
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

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