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

Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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Darkness Deep
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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Flower Healing Nature
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
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
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Discover Kill Nature Ourselves Simplicity
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Change Control Effort Force Love Strength
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual

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