Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
SHARON SALZBERGSelf-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
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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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Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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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 need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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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.
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We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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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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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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