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Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

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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Voting
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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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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We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
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From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
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You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
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Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.
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Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.
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Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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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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