“Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it’s also more grounded & sustainable.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Real love is an expression of the best of you and others. It’s moving, profound and essentially very simple at the same… — Annette Vaillancourt 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
“The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.” — 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
“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
“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.” — 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
“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 more we identify and acknowledge moments when we’re unable to share in someone else’s pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person’s… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to… — 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
“From our first breath to our last, we’re presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.” — 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
“If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate… — 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
“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
“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
“Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.” — 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
“The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.” — 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
“Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life.… — 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
“When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can’t control, we maintain our energy for the… — 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… — Sharon Salzberg 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
