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Sharon Salzberg Quotes | Quotes said by Sharon Salzberg

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #1

    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 Quote #2

    As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #3

    As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #4

    As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #5

    At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #6

    Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & 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.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #7

    Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #8

    Buddha ?rst taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #9

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

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #10

    Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #11

    Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #12

    Compassion is born out of lovingkindness.
    It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #13

    Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is on all the unfortunate things we have done, all the disturbing mistakes we have made. Yet this classical reflection is not a way of increasing conceit. It is rather a commitment to our own happiness, seeing our happiness as the basis for intimacy with all of life. It fills us with joy and love for ourselves and a great deal of self-respect. Significantly, when we do metta practice, we begin by directing metta toward ourselves. This is the essential foundation for being able to offer genuine love to others

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #14

    Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #15

    Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #16

    Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #17

    Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #18

    Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #19

    Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we’re hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #20

    Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #21

    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.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #22

    Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #23

    From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #24

    Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #25

    I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #26

    I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #27

    I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #28

    I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #29

    If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.

  • Sharon Salzberg Quote #30

    If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

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