The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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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Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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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.
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Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
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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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We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
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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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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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We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
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Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
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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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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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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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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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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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When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
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Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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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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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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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
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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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