We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
SHARON SALZBERGAll forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or loving & kindness.
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Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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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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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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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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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.
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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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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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Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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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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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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The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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