Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
SHARON SALZBERGIt is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.
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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
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Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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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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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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Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
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Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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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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Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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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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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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