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We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  3. Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises. – Sharon Salzberg
  4. To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within. – Sharon Salzberg
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  6. Ironic. I’m here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it’s my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him. – Sophie Jordan
  7. I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
  8. Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment. – Sharon Salzberg
  9. If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds? – Sharon Salzberg
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  22. While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now. – Sharon Salzberg
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  33. Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine. – Lauren Groff
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  38. We underestimate ourselves, we do not believe in our strength, abilities, and talents and we have a distorted vision of ourselves – Sunday Adelaja
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  40. The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion. – Allan Lokos

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