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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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Presence
Meditation
Compassion
Trust
Wisdom
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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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Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.
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Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.
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My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I’m told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don’t vote.
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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 need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
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In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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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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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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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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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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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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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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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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