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When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.

Sharon Salzberg

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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
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
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
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Love Person Self Love Worth
When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
SHARON SALZBERG

Darkness Deep
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
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Easy Greatness Life Light Ourselves
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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Difficult Feeling Life Love Reality Strength
Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Happiness Kindness Let Go Right
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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Attention Ourselves Philosophy Training

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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