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With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Sharon Salzberg

When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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Darkness Deep
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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Attention Experience Help Mindset Wisdom
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Fight Philosophy
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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Compassion Feeling Love Spiritual Thinking
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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Difficult Feeling Life Love Reality Strength
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
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
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
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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Light See Yourself
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
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Acceptance Disappointment Experience Goodness Growth Learning Opportunity
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
If 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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Anger Blame Commitment Fall Heart Willing
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

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

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