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Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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New York City
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The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, I'm so stressed out. I could use some of that! A response I also sometimes hear, which amuses me a lot is, My partner should really meet you!
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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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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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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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To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind. Page 62
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