If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
SHARON SALZBERGSelf-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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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 nature.
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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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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.
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The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
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Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
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Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Let the breath lead the way.
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If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
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When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
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