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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.

Sharon Salzberg

We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
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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Hate Mindset Science Thinking
If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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Love Ourselves Self Love True
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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Mind Science Understand
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story
If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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Attention Material Ourselves World
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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Faith Freedom Growth Mindset Wisdom
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
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
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Change Control Effort Force Love Strength
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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Forgiveness Hurt People
With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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Experience Freedom Humanity Joy Spirit Willing

You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.

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