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 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.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.
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Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
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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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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy.
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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 have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
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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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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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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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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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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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