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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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Writer
New York City
New York
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Imagine
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind. Page 62
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To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
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Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
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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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Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
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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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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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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into 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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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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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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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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Let the power of intention lead the way.
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Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.
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In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.
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