Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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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All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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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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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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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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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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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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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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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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