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

Sharon Salzberg

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
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
Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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Change Forgiveness Pain Relationship Release Story Time
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 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
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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Phone Science Technology
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
All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or loving & kindness.
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Attention Direction Kindness Strength
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
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
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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Forget Kindness Love Ourselves Time Unity
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
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
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
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence

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

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