582 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them.

The heart is a generous muscle.

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.

Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.

Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.

When we constantly hear that we should be smarter, better connected, more productive, wealthier—it takes real courage to claim the time and space to follow the currents of our talents, our aspirations, and our hearts, which may lead in a very different direction.

In one of the verses of Lal Ded, or Lalla, a fourteenth-century mystic from Kashmir, Lalla says: “At the end of a crazy-moon night the love of God rose. I said “It’s me, Lalla.”“It’s me, Lalla,” becomes “It’s me…whoever you are,” proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential. No one can take that leap for us; and no one has to. This is our journey of faith.

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.