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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Sharon Salzberg

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
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
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
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
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Feeling Freedom Happiness
Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
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
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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Attention Experience Help Mindset Wisdom
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Kind Life Religious
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
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

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