Loving Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

— Sharon Salzberg

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

— Sharon Salzberg

“The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation but for most of us this is a leap…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource…

— Sharon Salzberg

Loving ourselves opens us to truly knowing ourselves as part of the matrix of existence, inextricably connected to the boundlessness of life...…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Loving kindness is a form of love that truly is an ability, and, as research scientists have show, it can be learned.…

— Sharon Salzberg