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As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

Sharon Salzberg

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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New York City
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.
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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
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By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level of anguish. They just create from a different place.
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Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.
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