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Thinking Quotes by Sharon Salzberg
- When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question…
- I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief".…
- Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering…
- We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them…
- Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people…
- It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk,…
- Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great…
- The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
- The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and…
- Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back…
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- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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