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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Sharon Salzberg

We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
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Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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Let Go Resilence
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
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Destruction Different Old Young
When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
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
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Fear Money Time
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
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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Faith Freedom Growth Mindset Wisdom
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
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 Live Patience Power
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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Control Learning Let Go Moments

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