Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.
— Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism - a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.
— Sharon Salzberg
When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.
— Sharon Salzberg
We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.
— Sharon Salzberg
As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.
— Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
— Sharon Salzberg
I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.
— Sharon Salzberg
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.
— Sharon Salzberg
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
— Sharon Salzberg
Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
— Sharon Salzberg
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.
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When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.
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Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.
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Let the breath lead the way.
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If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn't deplete us to give.
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Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.
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Real love allows for failure and suffering.
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When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
— Sharon Salzberg
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
— Sharon Salzberg
When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings
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Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong
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To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
— Sharon Salzberg
Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.
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Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don't sense it.
— Sharon Salzberg
Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.
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When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
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The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,
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Resilience Practicing Self-Care To Avoid Burnout The Illusion of Control Patience and Perspective Resilience In The Face
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Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.
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Vulnerability should be the thing that brings us closer than anything because we all share that.
— Sharon Salzberg
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to makefriends with the quietness of our sensations. — Sharon Salzberg
Having' something makes us think we can control it.
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Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts.
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I need to start over. I can't just stay stuck in this place. This is a wonderful skill to bring to your life.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
— Sharon Salzberg
A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.
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The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.
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Meditation isn't about what's happening; it's about how you relate to what's happening.
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What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.
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There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love - letting go can feel scary.
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Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.
— Sharon Salzberg
Compassion Judgment Loving-Kindness Compassion Is A Force Disconnection Self-Blame and Compassion Praise and Blame
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Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.
— Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.
— Sharon Salzberg
There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.
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Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
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We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
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Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment
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I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
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Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.
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It's affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.
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With every action we take, we send love or suffering into the web that connects us.
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There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.
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If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?
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To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.
— Sharon Salzberg
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.
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Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.
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When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy.
— Sharon Salzberg
We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.
— Sharon Salzberg
Concentration Attention Multitasking Boredom Procrastination
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Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
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The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.
— Sharon Salzberg
When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
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How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.
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But to take delight in our generosity helps us immeasurably in our spiritual practice.
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The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.
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Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.
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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
— Sharon Salzberg
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.
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Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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The heart is a generous muscle.
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Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
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The journey to loving ourselves doesn't mean we like everything.
— Sharon Salzberg