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To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
Sharon Salzberg
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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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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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When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'
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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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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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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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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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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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Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
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We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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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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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.
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