We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
SHARON SALZBERGTraining attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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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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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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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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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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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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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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Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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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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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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