582 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we’re unable to share in someone else’s pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person’s happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.

[W]e're challenged daily to act lovingly on our own behalf. Simple gestures of respect—care of the body, rest for the mind, and beauty for the soul in the form of music and art or nature—are all ways of showing ourselves love.

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.

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

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.