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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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New York City
New York
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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.
Sharon Salzberg
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.
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To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
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The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, I'm so stressed out. I could use some of that! A response I also sometimes hear, which amuses me a lot is, My partner should really meet you!
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There are many different ways to practice meditation it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.
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Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
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Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
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Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response
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Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.
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When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.
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My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine
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Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.
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Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
Sharon Salzberg