The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.
– Sharon Salzberg
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- Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved. – Sharon Salzberg
- Stay alert at all times, alert to any opportunity for rest. – Ulysses Brave
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- The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others. – Sharon Salzberg
- Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic. – Sharon Salzberg
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- Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace. – Sharon Salzberg
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- Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert – Susana Fortes
- Secrets…were cancers. Secrets festered. Secrets ate away at your innards, leaving behind nothing but a flimsy husk. – Harlan Coben
- Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely. – Sarah Pinborough
- Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
- Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. – Sharon Salzberg
- When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. – Sharon Salzberg
- Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. – Sharon Salzberg
- The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, – Sharon Salzberg
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- With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. – Sharon Salzberg
- To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
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- Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
- Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
- Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
- The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight. – Sharon Salzberg
- Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there. – Debasish Mridha
- Mindfulness is a quiet mind, an aware mind. Mindfulness itself is not about -˜arriving,’ but about being. – Jean Moreau
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- You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank! – Nicole McKay
- This isn’t about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive. – Rivera Sun
- See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity – Cyndi Lee
- I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn’t be the cost of failure for a good friend. – Jodi Picoult
- It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself. – Olawale Daniel
- In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Cassie: What would it cost me if I kissed him? What would it cost me if I didn’t? – Melanie CusickJones
- Actions speak louder than words. Words cost nothing. Actions can cost everything. – Aleksandra Layland