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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Sharon Salzberg

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Kind Life Religious
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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Flower Healing Nature
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
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
When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.
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Deep Different Philosophy
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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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
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
Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
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Act Faith Force Ideal True Understand Walk
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Control Learning Let Go Moments
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 Live Patience Power
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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Afraid Art Experience Feeling
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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Attention Inspirational Yourself
If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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Attention Material Ourselves World

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