The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
SHARON SALZBERGWe are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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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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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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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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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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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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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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