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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

Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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Ability Connection Need Ourselves
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Let Go Ourselves
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
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
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
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
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
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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Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
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
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
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence

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