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

Sharon Salzberg

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Fight Philosophy
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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Compassion Feeling Love Spiritual Thinking
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
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Deep Ourselves Pain Philosophy
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.
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Hate Mindset Science Thinking
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
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
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
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
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
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Difference Experience Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See Story
It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.
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Ability Break Habit Light Perspective View
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves

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