

<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="account-name"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Throughout our
lives, we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of
connection with others. Our fear of intimacy—both with others and with
ourselves—creates feelings of pain and longing, but those feelings can awaken
in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take up a spiritual path.</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="account-name"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Longtime
meditation practitioner and teacher Sharon Salzberg draws on Buddhist
teachings, wisdom stories from various traditions, her own experiences, and
guided meditation exercises to unearth the radiant heart within each one of us.
Discover how the practice of lovingkindness illuminates a path to cultivating
love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, helping us realize our own
capacity for goodness and a new connection with all beings.</span></span></p>

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&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with
used items.</span></b></span></p>

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normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="account-name"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Sharon Salzberg </span></b></span><span class="account-name"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">was born on 5 August 1952, in New York,
United States. She is a New York Times bestselling author and teacher of
Buddhist meditation practices in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight
Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph
Goldstein.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>

