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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

Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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Change Courage Perseverance Story
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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Difficult Feeling Life Love Reality Strength
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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Bad Break Decision Disappointment Goodness People
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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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
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
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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Feeling Freedom Happiness
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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Connection Love Peace Reflection Simplicity
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
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start

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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