“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
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
“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
“Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also… — 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
Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we’re hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through… — 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
Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Stealth Meditation If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a quick, centering moment—as short as following three breaths—to connect with a deeper… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of… — 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
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us… — 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
