Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
SHARON SALZBERG

Existence Love Philosophy
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
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
SHARON SALZBERG

Difficult Feeling Life Love Reality Strength
When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.
SHARON SALZBERG

Deep Different Philosophy
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
SHARON SALZBERG

Compassion Home Joy Love Ourselves
$Sharon Salzberg Quote - Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.$

Just 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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Change Experience Light Love Philosophy Science
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Happiness Live Ourselves Search Suffering
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
SHARON SALZBERG

Let Go Ourselves
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
SHARON SALZBERG

Attention Inspirational Yourself
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
SHARON SALZBERG

Phone Science Technology
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Anger Compassion Feeling Honesty Ourselves Pain View
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
SHARON SALZBERG

Compassion Improvement Patience Power
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
SHARON SALZBERG

Fear Money Time
Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta ﬂows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
SHARON SALZBERG

Change Freedom Water
We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.
SHARON SALZBERG

Forget Forgiveness Simplicity
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
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
SHARON SALZBERG

Pain Practice Self Love Suffering Time
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
SHARON SALZBERG

Beautiful Beginning Development Energy Independent Person
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
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
SHARON SALZBERG

Change Deep Life
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
SHARON SALZBERG

Compassion Improvement Live Patience Power
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
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Compassion Deep Happiness Pain People Philosophy
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
SHARON SALZBERG

Difficult Fear Kindness
Let the breath lead the way.
SHARON SALZBERG

Breathe One Liner
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
SHARON SALZBERG

Feeling Freedom Happiness

Famous Author