The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything…

Sharon Salzberg
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The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be. ✨ Sharon Salzberg (2003). Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, p.17, Penguin
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