black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

Sharon Salzberg

You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
SHARON SALZBERG

Love Person Self Love Worth
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
SHARON SALZBERG

Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
SHARON SALZBERG

Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.
SHARON SALZBERG

Ability Break Habit Light Perspective View
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
SHARON SALZBERG

Flower Healing Nature
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
SHARON SALZBERG

Mind Science Understand
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
SHARON SALZBERG

Anger Force Forgiveness
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Faith Heart Ourselves Value Worth
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Attention Silence Sound Training Voice
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Acceptance Disappointment Experience Goodness Growth Learning Opportunity
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
SHARON SALZBERG

Appearance Kindness
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
SHARON SALZBERG

Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
SHARON SALZBERG

Experience Freedom Humanity Joy Spirit Willing
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
SHARON SALZBERG

Forget Person Vulnerable
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
SHARON SALZBERG

Life Ourselves Skill Transformation
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
SHARON SALZBERG

Difficult Fear Kindness

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sharon Salzberg Quotes