Let the breath lead the way.
SHARON SALZBERGIf we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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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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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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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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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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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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