Sharon Salzberg Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Sharon Salzberg on Wise Famous Quotes.
Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism - a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.
Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another.
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.
Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.
Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.
WHATEVER TAKES US to our edge, to our outer limits, leads us to the heart of life's mystery, and there we find faith.
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one's partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.
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.
When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.
When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.
The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.
Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.
In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.
What arises in our experience is much less important than how we relate to what arises in our experience.
There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.
Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won't single-highhandedly help you resolve them.
Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love - perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.
Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.
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.
We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we're innately capable of.
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.
I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.
It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.
Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.
We don't need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.