Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion,… — 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
The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, "I'm so stressed out. I could use some… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are… — 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
What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The first time a meditation teacher encouraged me to practice mindfulness—which” — 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
“When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.” — 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
I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.” — 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
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire. — 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
