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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg

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
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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Compassion Life Resilence Strong
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Easy Greatness Life Light Ourselves
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
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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Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
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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Listen Love Story
If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
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Deep Ourselves Pain Philosophy
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
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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Connection Eyes Fantasy Humble Reality Start
$Sharon Salzberg Quote - Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.$

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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Change Experience Light Love Philosophy Science

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