We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
SHARON SALZBERGMindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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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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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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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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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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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.
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Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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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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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
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Let the breath lead the way.
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The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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