Life Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.”

— Sharon Salzberg

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

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

— Sharon Salzberg

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

— Sharon Salzberg

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

— Sharon Salzberg

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

— Sharon Salzberg

“By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of…

— Sharon Salzberg

“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

“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness…

— Sharon Salzberg

“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

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

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

— 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

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an…

— Sharon Salzberg

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the…

— Sharon Salzberg

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

“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

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we…

— Sharon Salzberg

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and…

— Sharon Salzberg

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look…

— Sharon Salzberg

The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one…

— Sharon Salzberg

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

— Sharon Salzberg

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don’t sense it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

— Sharon Salzberg

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

— Sharon Salzberg

“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

“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

“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

“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

We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new…

— Sharon Salzberg

“When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize…

— Sharon Salzberg

“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

“If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence…

— Sharon Salzberg

“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

Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear…

— Sharon Salzberg