Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
SHARON SALZBERGJust as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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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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People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
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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 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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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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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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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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If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
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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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Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
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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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Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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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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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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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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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.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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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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