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When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Sharon Salzberg

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
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Easy Greatness Life Light Ourselves
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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Afraid Art Experience Feeling
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
The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
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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Flower Healing Nature
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
All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or loving & kindness.
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Attention Direction Kindness Strength
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Experience Mindset
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Kind Life Religious
If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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Attention Material Ourselves World
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
If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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Anger Blame Commitment Fall Heart Willing

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