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 SALZBERGMeditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
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Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
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When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
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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.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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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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While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
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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 can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
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By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind.
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Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
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Meditation 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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Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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