Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.

Having' something makes us think we can control it.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion through our own endeavor, inspiration, effort and development. There is a path, and we can traverse it.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

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.

We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.

When we have insight into our inner world and what brings us happiness, then wordlessly, intuitively, we understand others. As though there were no longer a barrier defining the boundaries of our caring, we can feel close to others’ experience of life. We see that when we are angry, there is an element of pain in the anger that is not different from the pain that others feel when they are angry. When we feel love, there is a distinct and special joy in that feeling. We come to know that this is the nature of love itself, and that other beings filled with love experience this same joy.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

look at the world with quiet eyes.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.