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.
SHARON SALZBERGForgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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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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Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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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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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Let the breath lead the way.
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The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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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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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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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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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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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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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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