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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

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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Acceptance Disappointment Experience Goodness Growth Learning Opportunity
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
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
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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End Happiness Mind Right
Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Happiness Kindness Let Go Right
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 overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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Bad Break Decision Disappointment Goodness People
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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Attention Experience Help Mindset Wisdom
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
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

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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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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