Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
Sharon Salzberg
If we fall, we don't need self recrimination or blame or anger we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole hearted once again.
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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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Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
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Life is like and ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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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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People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits
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All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
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Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain
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Buddha?rst taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me
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