We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
SHARON SALZBERGIf 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.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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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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When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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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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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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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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