We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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
“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
Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and… — 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
As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Loving ourselves opens us to truly knowing ourselves as part of the matrix of existence, inextricably connected to the boundlessness of life...… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. — 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
“Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new… — 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.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“That is why we do not hold an understanding of karma in a narrow way. It is an extremely vast vision of… — 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
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look… — 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
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
