“It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us… — 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
“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
“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
“Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.” — 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
“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present;… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Many strong emotions are actually intricate tapestries woven of various strands.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“About fireworks? About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very… — Alex Michaelides Copy Share Image
“When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.” — 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
“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
“Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we’re in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive—and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives—the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
