“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.… — 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… — 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
“Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.” — 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… — 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
“The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.” — 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
“The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.” — 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
“The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.” — 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
“We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to… — 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
“Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it’s easy to repeat established… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we… — 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
