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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 find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Easy Greatness Life Light Ourselves
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
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
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
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Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
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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Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Destruction Different Old Young
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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Bad Break Decision Disappointment Goodness People
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
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
When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
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Acceptance Disappointment Experience Goodness Growth Learning Opportunity
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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Phone Science Technology
With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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Experience Freedom Humanity Joy Spirit Willing
$Sharon Salzberg Quote - Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.$

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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Change Experience Light Love Philosophy Science

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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