The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
SHARON SALZBERGRestore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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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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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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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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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.
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We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Let the breath lead the way.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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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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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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