“The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,” — 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
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.” — 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
“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 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
“We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of.” — 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
“Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places… — 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
“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 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
Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got… — 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
I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Loving kindness is a form of love that truly is an ability, and, as research scientists have show, it can be learned.… — 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
“The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.” — 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
