The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
SHARON SALZBERGWe long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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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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The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Let the breath lead the way.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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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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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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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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If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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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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