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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

Sharon Salzberg

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
Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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Compassion Life Resilence Strong
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Experience Mindset
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
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
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Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
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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Ability Break Habit Light Perspective View
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
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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Attention Inspirational Yourself
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
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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Experience Freedom Humanity Joy Spirit Willing
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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Change Fear Happiness Integrity Life Nature Ourselves True
If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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Love Ourselves Self Love True
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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Connection Eyes Fantasy Humble Reality Start
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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Darkness Deep
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

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