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

Sharon Salzberg

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
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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Attention Ourselves Philosophy Training
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
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
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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Change Freedom Water
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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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
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
Let the breath lead the way.
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Breathe One Liner
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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End Happiness Mind Right
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Appearance Kindness
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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Connection Eyes Fantasy Humble Reality Start
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
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
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time

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

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