As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish …

Sharon Salzberg
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As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not. ✨ Sharon Salzberg (2008). The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion: Easy Read Comfort Edition, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com
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