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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.

Sharon Salzberg

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
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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Ability Connection Need Ourselves
All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or loving & kindness.
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Attention Direction Kindness Strength
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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Forget Kindness Love Ourselves Time Unity
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
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Listen Love Story
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
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
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Change Control Effort Force Love Strength
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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Darkness Deep
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
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

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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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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