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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.

Sharon Salzberg

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
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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Acceptance Disappointment Experience Goodness Growth Learning Opportunity
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
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
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
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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Difference Experience Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See Story
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
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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Forgiveness Hurt People
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence

The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.

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