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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.

Sharon Salzberg

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
SHARON SALZBERG

Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
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
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
Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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Change Forgiveness Pain Relationship Release Story Time
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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Hate Mindset Science Thinking
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
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 need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Let Go Ourselves
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Difference Independence Unity
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start

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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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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