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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
Sharon Salzberg
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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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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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To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
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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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Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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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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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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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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What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.
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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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