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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

Sharon Salzberg

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
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
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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Attention Inspirational Yourself
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 reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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Flower Healing Nature
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
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
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
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
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
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
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
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
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

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