“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
“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 set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives—the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain… — 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
“The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see… — 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
“Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.” — 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
“The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we’ve perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in… — 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
“When we develop our ability to love in one realm, we simultaneously nourish our ability in others, as long as we remain… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing… — 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
“Letting go of the belief that we’re powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our ability not only to heal but… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we’re in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we’re unable to share in someone else’s pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person’s… — 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
