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.
SHARON SALZBERGWe often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or loving & kindness.
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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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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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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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Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
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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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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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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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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 truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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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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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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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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