We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
SHARON SALZBERGRestore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
More Sharon Salzberg Quotes
-
-
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
SHARON SALZBERG -
Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
SHARON SALZBERG -
Meditation 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 SALZBERG -
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
SHARON SALZBERG -
The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
SHARON SALZBERG -
All 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 SALZBERG -
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
SHARON SALZBERG -
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
SHARON SALZBERG -
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
SHARON SALZBERG -
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
SHARON SALZBERG -
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
SHARON SALZBERG -
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
SHARON SALZBERG -
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
SHARON SALZBERG -
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.
SHARON SALZBERG -
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
SHARON SALZBERG