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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

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
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
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
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
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
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
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
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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Change Forgiveness Pain Relationship Release Story Time
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
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
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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Deep Different Philosophy
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity

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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