“We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can’t control, we maintain our energy for the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it’s also more grounded & sustainable.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don’t sense it.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people in abusive situations think they’re responsible for the other person’s happiness or that they’re going to fix them and make… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference -… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
“How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
“Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
“Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
“The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
“Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
“When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
“As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
“It's important to investigate the nature of anger because it is such a powerful energy and can be so destructive. When we can face… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share
