Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
SHARON SALZBERGSelf-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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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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If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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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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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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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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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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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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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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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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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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