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Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

Sharon Salzberg

Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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End Happiness Mind Right
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
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Listen Love Story
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
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Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
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
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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Mind Science Understand
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
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
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
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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Connection Eyes Fantasy Humble Reality Start
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

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Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

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