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Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

Sharon Salzberg

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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Light See Yourself
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 have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
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
If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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Love Ourselves Self Love True
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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Faith Freedom Growth Mindset Wisdom
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
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
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
Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Happiness Kindness Let Go Right
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Change Control Effort Force Love Strength
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life

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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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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