When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
SHARON SALZBERGLetting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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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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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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