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Forgiveness 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.

Sharon Salzberg

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
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Compassion Love Spiritual
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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Compassion Feeling Love Spiritual Thinking
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
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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Mind Science Understand
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Compassion Improvement Patience Power
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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Ability Connection Need Ourselves
Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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Compassion Life Resilence Strong
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
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Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Difficult Fear Kindness
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Discover Kill Nature Ourselves Simplicity
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Difficult Mind Remember
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

Forgiveness 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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Forgiveness 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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