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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
Wide
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You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.
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Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.
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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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Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others
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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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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
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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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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.
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Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves.
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Let the power of intention lead the way.
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Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.
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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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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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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.
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Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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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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