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It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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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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The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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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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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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We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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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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Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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$Sharon Salzberg Quote - Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.$

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 reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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