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Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others
Sharon Salzberg
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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.
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It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential.
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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
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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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Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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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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Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
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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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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.
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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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The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.
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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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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.
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Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.
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