Sharon Salzberg Archives - Love Quotes

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let...

- 31st May 2020 0

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,

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

For all of us, love can be the natural state of...

- 31st May 2020 0

In some ways our greatest ally in this practice of love is our wish to be happy. This wish functions as a homing instinct for freedom when we can unite it with understanding what actually brings us happiness. But sometimes we may feel that we do not really deserve happiness; we may feel almost ashamed of wanting it. Yet this wish is one of the finest things about us, opening the door to transcending our limited lives.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

In some ways our greatest ally in this practice of love...

- 21st May 2020 0

Author Alix Kates Shulman describes her experience this way in her memoir Drinking the Rain: I was sitting alone on the downtown subway on my way to pick up the children at their after-school music classes. The train had just pulled out of the 23rd Street station and was accelerating to its cruising speed … Then suddenly, the dull light in the car began to shine with exceptional lucidity until everything around me was glowing with an indescribable aura, and I saw in the row of motley passengers opposite the miraculous connection of all living beings. Not felt; saw. What began as a desultory thought grew into a vision, larger and unifying, in which all the people in the car hurtling downtown together, including myself, like all the people on the planet hurtling together around the sun—our entire living cohort—formed one united family, indissolubly connected by the rare and mysterious accident of life. No matter what our countless superficial differences, we were equal, we were one, by virtue of simply being alive at this moment out of all the possible moments stretching endlessly back and ahead. The vision filled me with overwhelming love for the entire human race and a feeling that no matter how incomplete or damaged our lives, we were surpassingly lucky to be alive. Then the train pulled into the station and I got off.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Author Alix Kates Shulman describes her experience this way in her...

- 20th May 2020 0

A modern astronomical view says that everything in the universe is moving uniformly away from everything else in all directions into space, so that there is no center point in the cosmos at all. We live with no fixed reference point. From one perspective, this understanding produces the desolate feeling that there is no home. But from another perspective, this realization shows us directly that every point is home. We are free; we do not need to fix on a single center for refuge, for safety. This is love, this is happiness, where our refuge is unbounded, and we are always at home. As the Buddha said, They abide in peace who do not abide anywhere.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

A modern astronomical view says that everything in the universe is...

- 12th May 2020 0

Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got the message that asking for help is a sign of weakness. We often forget that we’re interdependent creatures whose very existence depends on the kindness of others, including—with a bow to Tennessee Williams—strangers.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we...

- 5th May 2020 0

Oh, Marty—as in Martin Luther King, Jr.—used to say to me, ‘You have to love everybody.’ And I would say, ‘No, I don’t. I’m only going to love the people that deserve to be loved.’ And Marty would laugh and say, ‘No, no, no. You have to love everybody.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Oh, Marty—as in Martin Luther King, Jr.—used to say to me,...

- 23rd April 2020 0

This is why clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier to real love for ourselves. Perfection is a brittle state that generates a lot of anxiety, because achieving and maintaining unwavering standards—whether they’re internal or external—means we’re always under threat. We become focused on avoiding failure, and love for the self cannot be a refuge because it has become too conditional, too dependent on performance. As Oscar Wilde said in his play An Ideal Husband, It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. And that means every last one of us.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

This is why clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us...

- 18th March 2020 0

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
― Sharon Salzberg,

The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a...

- 28th February 2020 0

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
― Sharon Salzberg

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is...

- 27th February 2020 0

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