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Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

Sharon Salzberg

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
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
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
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
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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Connection Eyes Fantasy Humble Reality Start
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
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 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
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Control Learning Let Go Moments
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
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
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

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