We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
SHARON SALZBERGThe 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.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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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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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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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
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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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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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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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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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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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The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
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Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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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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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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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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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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It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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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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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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