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Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

Sharon Salzberg

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
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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Compassion Feeling Love Spiritual Thinking
With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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Experience Freedom Humanity Joy Spirit Willing
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
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
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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Change Freedom Water
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Kind Life Religious
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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Mind Science Understand
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
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.
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Hate Mindset Science Thinking
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start

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