Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
SHARON SALZBERGMetta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
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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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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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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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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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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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People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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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 someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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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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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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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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