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As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

Sharon Salzberg

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
Author
Writer
New York City
New York
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Bringing
Ease
Forth
Presence
Meditation
Compassion
Trust
Wisdom

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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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Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you you won't stand up for other people.
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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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Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
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At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
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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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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine
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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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What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.
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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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Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
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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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