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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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New York City
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In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
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From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
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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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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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The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.
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We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
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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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We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.
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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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It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.
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Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
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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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