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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Sharon Salzberg
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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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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 cherish others is to cherish ourselves. To cherish ourselves is to cherish others. And in that same way, we relate to the truth. If we support it, if we embrace it, if we uphold it, we will be embraced by it, we will be supported and upheld by it.
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Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
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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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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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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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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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Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you you won't stand up for other people.
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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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