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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

Sharon Salzberg

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
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
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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Difficult Feeling Life Love Reality Strength
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
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
Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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Forgiveness Hurt People
Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta ﬂows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
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Change Freedom Water
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
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
Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
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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Feeling Freedom Happiness
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
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Creation Generosity Heart Joy Let Go Ourselves Space World

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