582 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.

It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.

What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it’s disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn’t ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.

Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another.

Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we’re in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind.

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.