Real Change
Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
Sharon Salzberg
From one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation comes a guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build our inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world.
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The book was mentioned multiple times as Sharon Salzberg's most recent book at the time of the podcast recording. Krista Tippett referenced specific sentences from the book's foreword that summarized Salzberg's teachings on cultivating agency and remembering values in the face of adversity.
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We practice in order to cultivate a sense of agency, to understand that a range of responses is open to us.
— Episode: Sharon Salzberg — The Healing Is In The...
Episode: Sharon Salzberg — The Healing Is In The Return
The book was mentioned multiple times as Sharon Salzberg's most recent book at the time of the podcast recording. Krista Tippett referenced specific sentences from the book's foreword that summarized Salzberg's teachings on cultivating agency and remembering values in the face of adversity.
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We practice in order to cultivate a sense of agency, to understand that a range of responses is open to us.
We practice to remember to breathe, to have the space in the midst of adversity, to remember our values, what we really care about and to find support in our inner strength and in one another.
Episode: [Unedited] Sharon Salzberg with Krista Tippett
The speaker discussed the book's foreword, which was written after the pandemic began, and how its message about cultivating agency and finding support resonated with the current situation. The author mentioned that the examples in the book seemed to foreshadow the anxieties of the pandemic.
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we practice in order to cultivate a sense of agency, to understand that a range of responses is open to us. We practice to remember to breathe, to have the space in the midst of adversity, to remember our values, what we really care about, and to find support in our inner strength and in one another.
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