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When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.

When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  5. 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
  6. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings. – Sharon Salzberg
  7. The way we relate with people is the same way we relate with God – Sunday Adelaja
  8. God can only relate effectively with you when you relate with people – Sunday Adelaja
  9. When we relate with people, we indirectly relate with God – Sunday Adelaja
  10. Psalms teaches us how to relate to God, and Proverbs teaches us how to relate to others. – Billy Graham
  11. 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
  12. The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything. – Sharon Salzberg
  13. These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily. – Sharon Salzberg
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  16. We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. – Sharon Salzberg
  17. We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of. – Sharon Salzberg
  18. I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. – Frida Kahlo
  19. Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts. – Vironika Tugaleva
  20. Knowledge comes naturally with studying, and with God’s touch, instantly. Wisdom comes naturally with age, and with God’s touch, immediately. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  21. Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do. – Dan Harmon
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  23. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  24. Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness. – Sharon Salzberg
  25. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. 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
  27. Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root. – Sharon Salzberg
  29. The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy. – Sharon Salzberg
  30. Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone. – Sharon Salzberg
  31. Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  32. A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. – Sharon Salzberg
  33. Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
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  36. 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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  38. We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings. – Sharon Salzberg
  39. The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. – Sharon Salzberg
  40. Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy. – Sharon Salzberg

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