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For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

Sharon Salzberg

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
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
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
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
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Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
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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Act Faith Force Ideal True Understand Walk
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
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
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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Compassion Life Resilence Strong
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
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
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
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

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