“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
“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
“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
“Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing… — 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
“Sometimes people in abusive situations think they’re responsible for the other person’s happiness or that they’re going to fix them and make… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we’ve perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as… — 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
“In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then… — 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… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists… — 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
“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we… — 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
“To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It’s how we relate… — 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
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
