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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Sharon Salzberg

The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
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
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
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
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
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
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
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Control Learning Let Go Moments
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Kind Life Religious
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Destruction Different Old Young

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

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