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.
SHARON SALZBERGEven as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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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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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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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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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.
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By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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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.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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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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While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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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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