Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
SHARON SALZBERGThe light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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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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We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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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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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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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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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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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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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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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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The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.
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