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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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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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New York City
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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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Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.
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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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My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
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Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.
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Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.
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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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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
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As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.
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Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
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Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
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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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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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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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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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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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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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I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.
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