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

Sharon Salzberg

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
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
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Listen Love Story
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
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
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
Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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Anger Compassion Feeling Honesty Ourselves Pain View
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 often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
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
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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End Happiness Mind Right
To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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Faith Heart Ourselves Value Worth
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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Connection Eyes Fantasy Humble Reality Start

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