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Let the power of intention lead the way.

Sharon Salzberg

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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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It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion through our own endeavor, inspiration, effort and development. There is a path, and we can traverse it.
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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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Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
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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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I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.
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In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?
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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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Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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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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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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Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.
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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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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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At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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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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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.
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