Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
SHARON SALZBERGIts never too late to take a moment to look.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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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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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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