black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Sharon Salzberg

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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Change Forgiveness Pain Relationship Release Story Time
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
Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
SHARON SALZBERG

Forgiveness Hurt People
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
SHARON SALZBERG

Control Learning Let Go Moments
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
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
SHARON SALZBERG

Let Go Resilence
The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
SHARON SALZBERG

Light See Yourself
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Fight Life Ourselves Respect Understanding
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
SHARON SALZBERG

Change Control Effort Force Love Strength
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
SHARON SALZBERG

End Happiness Mind Right
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
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
SHARON SALZBERG

Courage Deep Learning Live Need Past
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
SHARON SALZBERG

Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Difference Experience Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See Story
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
SHARON SALZBERG

Difficult Fear Kindness
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 SALZBERG

Deep Ourselves Pain Philosophy

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sharon Salzberg Quotes