We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
SHARON SALZBERGWe can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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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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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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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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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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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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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 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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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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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.
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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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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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