We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
SHARON SALZBERGTo 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.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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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 overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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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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We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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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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For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
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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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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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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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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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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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