To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
SHARON SALZBERGYou are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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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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People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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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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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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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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Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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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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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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