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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Sharon Salzberg

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
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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Listen Love Story
The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
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Creation Generosity Heart Joy Let Go Ourselves Space World
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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Attention Ourselves Philosophy Training
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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Light See Yourself
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Change Control Effort Force Love Strength
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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Act Faith Force Ideal True Understand Walk
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Fight Philosophy

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