582 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.

Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.

Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.

I believe that there is only one kind of love—real love—trying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions of our culture, and the habits of fear, self-condemnation, and isolation that we tend to acquire just by living a life.

Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.

Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love.

The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.