“When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
It is because of that balanced relationship to the moment that mindfulness serves as the platform for insight... if we feel an… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“In mindfulness practice, wise discernment is a tool that can help us in boundary setting. Mindfulness may open the doors of perception,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.” — 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
You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or lovingkindness.” — 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
