Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
SHARON SALZBERGWe find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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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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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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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or loving & kindness.
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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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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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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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We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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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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Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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