To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
SHARON SALZBERGMeditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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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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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
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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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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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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.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
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