Love Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

“We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Real love allows for failure and suffering.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

— Sharon Salzberg

I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.

— Sharon Salzberg

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

— Sharon Salzberg

“Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.”

— Sharon Salzberg

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

— Sharon Salzberg

“The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,”

— 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

“We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.”

— Sharon Salzberg

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

— Sharon Salzberg

“Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear…

— Sharon Salzberg

“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in…

— Sharon Salzberg

I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along…

— Sharon Salzberg

“No matter what we think we should do, I don’t think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor—or your boss—when you…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got…

— Sharon Salzberg

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results…

— Sharon Salzberg

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I…

— Sharon Salzberg

I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find…

— Sharon Salzberg

As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up…

— Sharon Salzberg

“There are an incalculable—even infinite—number of situations in which we can practice forgiveness. Expecting it to be a singular action—motivated by the…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Loving kindness is a form of love that truly is an ability, and, as research scientists have show, it can be learned.…

— 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

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“A relationship is the union of two psychological systems.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun.”

— Sharon Salzberg