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Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

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

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  1. With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. – Sharon Salzberg
  2. What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives. – Sharon Salzberg
  3. The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others. – Sharon Salzberg
  4. If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  5. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  6. By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. – Sharon Salzberg
  7. Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively. – Sharon Salzberg
  8. Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises. – Sharon Salzberg
  9. We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts. – Sharon Salzberg
  10. Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment – Sharon Salzberg
  11. Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body. – Sharon Salzberg
  12. Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment. – Sharon Salzberg
  13. Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance. – Sharon Salzberg
  14. Meditation is not about what’s happening, it is about how we’re relating to what’s happening. – Sharon Salzberg
  15. The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good. – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
  16. Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice. – Abhijit Naskar
  17. You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – R Buckminster Fuller
  18. To model the path of love, is to model the representation of God in your life. – Wayne Chirisa
  19. I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing. – Mae West
  20. When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning. – Katelyn Beaty
  21. … all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.[2002] p.46 – Gary Hamel
  22. A smart model is a good model. – Tyra Banks
  23. You think you’re a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you’re a negative role model. – Judith Rodin
  24. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Richard Buckminster Bucky Fuller
  25. Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
  26. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. – Sharon Salzberg
  27. When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. – Sharon Salzberg
  29. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, – Sharon Salzberg
  30. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets. – Sharon Salzberg
  31. To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  32. Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. – Sharon Salzberg
  33. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  34. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  36. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  37. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight. – Sharon Salzberg
  38. Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there. – Debasish Mridha
  39. Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. – Sara Sheridan
  40. Many men have children, but not many children have ‘Fathers’. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills – Fela Durotoye

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