If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
SHARON SALZBERGBy practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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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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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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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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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Mindfulness 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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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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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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With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.
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If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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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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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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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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