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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.

Sharon Salzberg

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
SHARON SALZBERG

Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Destruction Different Old Young
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
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
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
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
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
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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Attention Inspirational Yourself
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
The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
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Creation Generosity Heart Joy Let Go Ourselves Space World
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence

Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.

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