“So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.” — 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
Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look. — 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
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow… — 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
“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
“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
“Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“One of my friends who leads meditation retreats honors the Asian habit, as I do, of bowing to the image of the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. — 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
“We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
