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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Sharon Salzberg

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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Attachment Desire Existence
You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Love Person Self Love Worth
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Change Deep Life
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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Anger Blame Commitment Fall Heart Willing
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
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Feeling Freedom Happiness
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
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
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
Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
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Change Fear Happiness Integrity Life Nature Ourselves True
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
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
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

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

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