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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

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
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
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
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
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
Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Happiness Kindness Let Go Right
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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Attention Ourselves Philosophy Training
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
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
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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Afraid Art Experience Feeling
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy

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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