Buddhism Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

“Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Equanimity can be hard to talk about.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

— Sharon Salzberg

“With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Instead of catching ourselves after we first felt angry, we develop a visceral sensitivity to what's happening within us in the moment…

— Sharon Salzberg

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the…

— Sharon Salzberg

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present;…

— Sharon Salzberg

“In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness…

— Sharon Salzberg

“One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing…

— Sharon Salzberg

In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the…

— Sharon Salzberg

In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means…

— Sharon Salzberg

The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our…

— Sharon Salzberg

“One of my friends who leads meditation retreats honors the Asian habit, as I do, of bowing to the image of the…

— Sharon Salzberg

“We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again”

— Sharon Salzberg

“As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.”

— Sharon Salzberg