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The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,

The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,
– Sharon Salzberg

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  1. Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
  2. The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. – Sharon Salzberg
  3. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  4. With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be. – Sharon Salzberg
  5. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. – Sharon Salzberg
  6. When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away. – Sharon Salzberg
  7. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings. – Sharon Salzberg
  8. With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. – Sharon Salzberg
  9. I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. – Frida Kahlo
  10. Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  11. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  12. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  13. Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there. – Debasish Mridha
  14. You’ve never had wok-seared spicy broccoli until you’ve had takeout trans-temporal wok-seared spicy broccoli delivered by a copy of yourself. – Magnus Von Black
  15. Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it’s the smell of schizophrenia. – Thomas Harris
  16. Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love. – Kilroy J Oldster
  17. When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. – Sharon Salzberg
  18. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. – Sharon Salzberg
  19. Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives. – Sharon Salzberg
  20. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets. – Sharon Salzberg
  21. To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  22. Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. – Sharon Salzberg
  23. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  24. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight. – Sharon Salzberg
  25. When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. Kindness and love, love and kindness.. You can’t have one without the other.. Kindness and love go hand-in-hand. – Heather Wolf
  27. Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully. – Sharon Salzberg
  29. Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience. – Sharon Salzberg
  30. The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything. – Sharon Salzberg
  31. Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness. – Sharon Salzberg
  32. Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened. – Sharon Salzberg
  33. Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive. – Sharon Salzberg
  34. Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy. – Sharon Salzberg
  36. Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone. – Sharon Salzberg
  37. In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away. – Sharon Salzberg
  38. These were formative years for me, and many of these experiences have had a profound effect on my life. – Tilly Dunn
  39. In the formative present, you are becoming who you will be in the future. – Sarah Lynn Phillips
  40. Church is not meant to be fun. It’s meant to be formative. – Matt Chandler

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