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If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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Phone Science Technology
When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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Darkness Deep
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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Afraid Art Experience Feeling
Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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Attention Ourselves Philosophy Training
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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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
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Difference Experience Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See Story
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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Forget Kindness Love Ourselves Time Unity
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
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
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
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
If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
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Deep Ourselves Pain Philosophy
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time

If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

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If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

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