“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
“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
“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
“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
“Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have… — 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
“Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It’s not a matter of learning techniques to “make friends and influence… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
