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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

Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
SHARON SALZBERG

Ability Connection Need Ourselves
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
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable
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
Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Control Learning Let Go Moments
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
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Difference Experience Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See Story
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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Attention Inspirational Yourself
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
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story

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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