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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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Faith Freedom Growth Mindset Wisdom
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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Compassion Feeling Love Spiritual Thinking
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Experience Mindset
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
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Difference Experience Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See Story
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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Anger Blame Commitment Fall Heart Willing
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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Anger Compassion Feeling Honesty Ourselves Pain View
You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Love Person Self Love Worth
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
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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Compassion Life Resilence Strong
When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

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