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Its never too late to take a moment to look.

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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New York City
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Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.
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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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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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Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response
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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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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
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Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
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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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Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others
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We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
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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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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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Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
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Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.
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My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
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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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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level of anguish. They just create from a different place.
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True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.
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