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Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
THIS SENSE OF agency to remake our own lives or the world that we see can happen at any time, at any age.
from Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
Tara McMullin added 1d ago
I am reminded to look for what is whole, integrated, undamaged, even in the face of devastation or loss.
from Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
Tara McMullin added 1d ago
“I think the future is … well, as somebody said one time, ‘It’s out there.’ But it’s not only out there; it’s ready to be changed. It’s malleable, and there’s nothing fixed that you can’t unfix. But to unfix things that appear to be fixed, you have to not only be creative and imaginative, but courageously dedicated to the long haul.”
from Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
Tara McMullin added 1d ago
I believe in a world where change might be hard but is always seen as possible, however stuck we might feel in any given moment.
from Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
Tara McMullin added 1d ago
THIS ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the need to truly touch our sadness, pain, and loss is where real change is born, where we begin to build resilience.
from Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
Tara McMullin added 1d ago
Sooner or later, it becomes crucial to directly face that helplessness and pain: it is only when we can see them more as feelings born of circumstances in the moment than unassailable truths that we can start to genuinely move beyond them.
from Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
Tara McMullin added 1d ago
the same disruption that leads to people protesting in the streets is also connected to any liberation from groupthink that enables people to hear and heed their own drum beat a little better—to even remember it’s there.
from Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
Tara McMullin added 1d ago
If we look carefully at our actions—what we say or do, what we refrain from saying or doing—we can sense within them an urge toward wholeness, toward happiness.
from Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
Tara McMullin added 1d ago
Often we see ourselves as isolated, independent, sealed off from others, and in that separation, we struggle to seize control somehow.
from Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
Tara McMullin added 1d ago