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Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.

Sharon Salzberg

The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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Ability Connection Need Ourselves
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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Destruction Different Old Young
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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Mind Science Understand
The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.
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Hate Mindset Science Thinking
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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Faith Heart Ourselves Value Worth
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Discover Kill Nature Ourselves Simplicity
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
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
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
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
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy

Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.

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