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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

Sharon Salzberg

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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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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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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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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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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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When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.
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$Sharon Salzberg Quote - Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.$

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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Change Experience Light Love Philosophy Science
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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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.
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Change Fear Happiness Integrity Life Nature Ourselves True

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