To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
SHARON SALZBERGWhen 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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Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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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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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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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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When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
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It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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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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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
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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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