If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.
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.
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The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
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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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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
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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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The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
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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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Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
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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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The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
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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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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make.
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It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.
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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.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
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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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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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