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A Simple Meditation to Connect With Loving-Kindness, from Sharon Salzberg

By Sharon Salzberg — 2020

This classic loving-kindness meditation can help you to awaken to how connected we all are. You don’t have to like everybody, or agree with everything they do—but you can open up to the possibility of caring for them, because our lives are inextricably linked.

Read on www.mindful.org

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