Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Moments See
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Forget Person Vulnerable
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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Care Kindness Place Reflection Yourself
The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
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Creation Generosity Heart Joy Let Go Ourselves Space World
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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Connection Eyes Fantasy Humble Reality Start
Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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Happiness Kindness Let Go Right
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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Attention Ourselves Philosophy Training
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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Ability Worth
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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Experience Mindset
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Confidence Ourselves Truth Understand
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
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Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
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End Seek Spiritual
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
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Ability Connection Need Ourselves
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Destruction Different Old Young
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Alive Feeling Kindness
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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Afraid Art Experience Feeling
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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Fight Philosophy
For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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Connection Love Peace Reflection Simplicity
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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Imagination Inspirational Power Yourself
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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Peace Transformation
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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Imagination Love Place Start
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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Freedom Ourselves Story True Love
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
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Happiness Ignorance Ourselves Philosophy Suffering
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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Compassion Feeling Love Spiritual Thinking
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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Attention Experience Help Mindset Wisdom
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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Ability Break Habit Light Perspective View
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Discover Kill Nature Ourselves Simplicity

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