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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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New York City
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Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.
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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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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
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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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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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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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Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
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Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
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