The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
SHARON SALZBERGThe 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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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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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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Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
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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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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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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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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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We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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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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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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