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The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

Sharon Salzberg

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
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Fight Philosophy
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
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
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Experience Mindset
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
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
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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Feeling Freedom Happiness
If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
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Deep Ourselves Pain Philosophy
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
Self-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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Compassion Life Resilence Strong
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Love Person Self Love Worth
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable

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