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Sharon Salzberg

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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Hate Mindset Science Thinking
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
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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Darkness Deep
If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
SHARON SALZBERG

Love Ourselves Self Love True
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
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
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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Faith Heart Ourselves Value Worth
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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End Happiness Mind Right
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.
SHARON SALZBERG

Deep Different Philosophy
Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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Difficult Feeling Life Love Reality Strength
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Let Go Ourselves

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