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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Sharon Salzberg

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
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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Flower Healing Nature
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta ﬂows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
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Change Freedom Water
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Control Learning Let Go Moments
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
You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Love Person Self Love Worth
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
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Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person

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