The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
SHARON SALZBERGMindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
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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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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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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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When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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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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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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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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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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While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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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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