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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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At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
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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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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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Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.
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It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.
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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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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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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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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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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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We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
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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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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.
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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
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I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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