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Meditation 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

Sharon Salzberg

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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Experience Freedom Humanity Joy Spirit Willing
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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Phone Science Technology
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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Anger Force Forgiveness
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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Anger Blame Commitment Fall Heart Willing
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
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
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
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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Anger Compassion Feeling Honesty Ourselves Pain View
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Existence Love Philosophy
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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Expectation Experience Let Go Ourselves
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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Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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Connection Love Peace Reflection Simplicity

Meditation 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 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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