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What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

Sharon Salzberg

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
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Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
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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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In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.
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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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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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