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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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Light See Yourself
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
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
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
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
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
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Discover Kill Nature Ourselves Simplicity
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
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
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
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

Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.

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