Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
SHARON SALZBERGAs we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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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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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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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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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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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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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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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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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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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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It 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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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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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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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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