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When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.

Sharon Salzberg

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
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Difficult Effort Perseverance Willing
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
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Change Present Vulnerable
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
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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Phone Science Technology
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.
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Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
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
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Attention Deep Difference Happiness Misery Philosophy
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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Deep Ourselves Pain Philosophy
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Happiness Kindness Let Go Right

When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.

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