“Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we forgive someone, we don’t pretend that the harm didn’t happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what… — 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
“We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“From our first breath to our last, we’re presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to… — 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
“Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.” — 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
“The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we develop our ability to love in one realm, we simultaneously nourish our ability in others, as long as we remain… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.” — 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
“A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.” — 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
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
