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

Sharon Salzberg

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
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
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
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Difference Experience Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See Story
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Experience Mindset
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Easy Greatness Life Light Ourselves
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.
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Deep Different Philosophy
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
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
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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Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
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

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