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I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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New York City
New York
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Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.
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Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.
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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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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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Because the development of inner calm and energy happens completely within and isn't dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful - and a huge relief.
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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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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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Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
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Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
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Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others
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Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.
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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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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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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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Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
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What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.
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