Sharon Salzberg Quotes - Page 3

Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

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.

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

When you're wide open, the world is a good place.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves.

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.

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

You cannot fail at meditation.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

Because the development of inner calm and energy happens completely within and isn't dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful - and a huge relief.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

There are many times when I have to remind myself that people who harm others are coming from a place of profound disconnection. It is not easy to recognize the pain such a person is in, especially because they may not be conscious of it themselves. They may present themselves to the world as just fine. If you believe human beings have a potential for deep connection, wisdom and love; the limitation in those peoples' lives becomes clearer.

It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.