Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
SHARON SALZBERGWhen you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
-
-
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
SHARON SALZBERG -
We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
SHARON SALZBERG -
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
SHARON SALZBERG -
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
SHARON SALZBERG -
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.
SHARON SALZBERG -
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.
SHARON SALZBERG -
Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
SHARON SALZBERG -
Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
SHARON SALZBERG -
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
SHARON SALZBERG -
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 -
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
SHARON SALZBERG -
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
SHARON SALZBERG -
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 -
If 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 SALZBERG -
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
SHARON SALZBERG