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 SALZBERGCompassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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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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Let the breath lead the way.
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Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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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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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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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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With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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