By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
SHARON SALZBERGMindfulness 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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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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While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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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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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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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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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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All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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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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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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