Sharon Salzberg Archives - Love Quotes

Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can...

- 8th October 2020 0

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can...

- 12th August 2020 0

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another...

- 24th July 2020 0

The simple act of being completely attentive and present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being. It is happiness that isn’t bound to a particular situation, happiness that can withstand change.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Happiness

The simple act of being completely attentive and present to another...

- 24th July 2020 0

Instead, the Buddha replied, I am going to send you back to the same forest, but I will provide you with the only protection you will need. This was the first teaching of metta meditation. The Buddha encouraged the monks not only to recite the metta phrases but to actually practice them. As these stories all seem to end so happily, so did this one—it is said that the monks went back and practiced metta, so that the tree spirits became quite moved by the beauty of the loving energy filling the forest, and resolved to care for and serve the monks in all ways. The inner meaning of the story is that a mind filled with fear can still be penetrated by the quality of lovingkindness. Moreover, a mind that is saturated by lovingkindness cannot be overcome by fear; even if fear should arise, it will not overpower such a mind.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Instead, the Buddha replied, I am going to send you back...

- 24th July 2020 0

The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism. ...

- 21st July 2020 0

It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It’s not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it’s eminently possible.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of...

- 18th July 2020 0

He was amazed to find that the Karmapa, an eminent spiritual leader known the world over, treated him as though his visit were one of the most important things that had ever happened to the Karmapa in his life. This treatment did not manifest through grandiose gestures or ceremony, but rather through the simplicity and completeness of the Karmapa’s presence, which offered my friend an experience of being completely loved. When I heard this story, I thought about how many conversations I have had during which my attention was halfhearted. I might be thinking about the next thing I had to do or the next person I had to talk to. How unfair that lack of attention now seems! The simple act of being completely present to another person is truly an act of love—no drama is required.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

He was amazed to find that the Karmapa, an eminent spiritual...

- 18th July 2020 0

IF WE TRY to block off or deny a big part of what we experience, our wakeful, connected relationship to ourselves gets sharply whittled down. How then can we possibly feel alive?
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

IF WE TRY to block off or deny a big part...

- 6th July 2020 0

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.
― Sharon Salzberg,

Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave...

- 6th July 2020 0

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