Learn Quote by Sharon Salzberg

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from…

— Chogyam Trungpa

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of…

— Anonymous

“We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Equanimity can be hard to talk about.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious…

— Sharon Salzberg

“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.”

— Sharon Salzberg