Mindfulness Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

“What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

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

— Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

— Sharon Salzberg

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

— Sharon Salzberg

“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

“Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.”

— 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

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows…

— Sharon Salzberg

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

— Sharon Salzberg

“To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment…

— Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it’s necessary to start with ourselves.”

— 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

“We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to…

— Sharon Salzberg

“I believe that there is only one kind of love—real love—trying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions…

— 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 order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then…

— 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

“No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It’s how we relate…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the…

— Sharon Salzberg

It is because of that balanced relationship to the moment that mindfulness serves as the platform for insight... if we feel an…

— 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

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

— Sharon Salzberg

“In mindfulness practice, wise discernment is a tool that can help us in boundary setting. Mindfulness may open the doors of perception,…

— Sharon Salzberg

“In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

— Sharon Salzberg

“The first time a meditation teacher encouraged me to practice mindfulness—which”

— Sharon Salzberg

“There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.”

— Sharon Salzberg

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

— Sharon Salzberg

“Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.”

— Sharon Salzberg