black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Fear Money Time
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
SHARON SALZBERG

Difficult Fear Kindness
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
SHARON SALZBERG

Ability Connection Need Ourselves
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
SHARON SALZBERG

Flower Healing Nature
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
SHARON SALZBERG

Change Control Effort Force Love Strength
You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
SHARON SALZBERG

Love Person Self Love Worth
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
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
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Change Fear Happiness Integrity Life Nature Ourselves True
Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.
SHARON SALZBERG

Attention Eyes Ourselves Spiritual Training
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.
SHARON SALZBERG

Hate Mindset Science Thinking
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
SHARON SALZBERG

Change Courage Perseverance Story
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
SHARON SALZBERG

Compassion Love Spiritual
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
SHARON SALZBERG

Mind Science Understand
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
If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
SHARON SALZBERG

Love Ourselves Self Love True

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sharon Salzberg Quotes