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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Sharon Salzberg

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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Act Faith Force Ideal True Understand Walk
The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta ﬂows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
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Change Freedom Water
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
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Love Person Self Love Worth
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
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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Hate Mindset Science Thinking
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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Connection Eyes Fantasy Humble Reality Start
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story
When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

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