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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Sharon Salzberg

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.
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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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The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.
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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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