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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

Sharon Salzberg

If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
SHARON SALZBERG

Love Ourselves Self Love True
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Hate Mindset Science Thinking
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
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
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Fight Philosophy
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
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
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
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
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
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
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
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
SHARON SALZBERG

Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

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