The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
SHARON SALZBERGWe don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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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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When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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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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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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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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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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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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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Let the breath lead the way.
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