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

Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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Faith Freedom Growth Mindset Wisdom
For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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Connection Love Peace Reflection Simplicity
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
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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Bad Break Decision Disappointment Goodness People
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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Forget Kindness Love Ourselves Time Unity
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
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
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
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
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
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Let Go Ourselves
It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.
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Ability Break Habit Light Perspective View
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity

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