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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

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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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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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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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Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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$Sharon Salzberg Quote - Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.$

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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Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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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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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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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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