Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful–and a huge relief.

Sharon Salzberg
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The development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief. It is a beautiful feeling that we have a place where we can go and just be us. The problem with this though is that no one else around you understands this place you have been going to. Your husband doesn’t know this place you go to.

Your friends don’t know this place you go to. In fact, they don’t even understand what it means to be calm or happy or sad or angry or stressed or happy or…well, you get the point. This news doesn’t travel too well.

Why should it? The people around you don’t know how to appreciate that place that you have been going to.

Source: Real Happiness: The Power Of Meditation

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