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Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.

Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  2. Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace. – Sharon Salzberg
  3. Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism-” a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew. – Sharon Salzberg
  4. When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. – Sharon Salzberg
  5. We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. – Sharon Salzberg
  6. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets. – Sharon Salzberg
  7. The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love. – Sharon Salzberg
  8. Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create… – Mehmet Murat ildan
  9. The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes. – Brooke Burgess
  10. Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal. – Amit Ray
  11. You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable. – Sharon Salzberg
  12. Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them. – Sharon Salzberg
  13. Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it. – Sharon Salzberg
  14. The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others. – Sharon Salzberg
  15. Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic. – Sharon Salzberg
  16. 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
  17. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  18. Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment. – Sharon Salzberg
  19. Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was. – Sharon Salzberg
  20. When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy. – Sharon Salzberg
  21. When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings – Sharon Salzberg
  22. Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships -” the experiences of your emerging new self! – Bryant McGill
  23. Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
  24. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. – Sharon Salzberg
  25. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, – Sharon Salzberg
  27. 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
  28. With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. – Sharon Salzberg
  29. To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  30. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  31. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  32. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  33. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  34. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there. – Debasish Mridha
  36. Mindfulness is a quiet mind, an aware mind. Mindfulness itself is not about -˜arriving,’ but about being. – Jean Moreau
  37. Our senses are often the gateway to our stories. – Sharon Salzberg
  38. We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. – Sharon Salzberg
  39. Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself. – Rebecca Goldstein
  40. The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us. – Ashton Applewhite

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