Pain Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

“It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us…

— Sharon Salzberg

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

— Sharon Salzberg

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see…

— Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity…

— Sharon Salzberg

It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain.…

— Sharon Salzberg

In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the…

— Sharon Salzberg

“When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize…

— Sharon Salzberg

If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter…

— Sharon Salzberg

One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that…

— Sharon Salzberg

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We…

— Sharon Salzberg

There are many times when I have to remind myself that people who harm others are coming from a place of profound…

— Sharon Salzberg

Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate…

— Sharon Salzberg

In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that…

— Sharon Salzberg

It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a…

— Sharon Salzberg

Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy,…

— Sharon Salzberg