The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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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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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We 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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Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
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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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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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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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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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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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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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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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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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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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