We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
SHARON SALZBERGWe have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
SHARON SALZBERGWe can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
SHARON SALZBERGBy practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
SHARON SALZBERGThe key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
SHARON SALZBERGIf we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
SHARON SALZBERGWhen we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
SHARON SALZBERGTraining attention through meditation opens our eyes.
SHARON SALZBERGAll 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.
SHARON SALZBERGMeditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
SHARON SALZBERGThe 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 SALZBERGThe combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
SHARON SALZBERGMindfulness 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 SALZBERGPain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
SHARON SALZBERGWe have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
SHARON SALZBERGEffort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
SHARON SALZBERGMeditation 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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