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The 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.

Sharon Salzberg

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
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
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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Acceptance Disappointment Experience Goodness Growth Learning Opportunity
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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Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Kind Life Religious
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
The 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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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
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
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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Flower Healing Nature
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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Bad Break Decision Disappointment Goodness People
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
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

The 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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The 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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