582 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive—and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.

Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives—the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we’d just as soon forget.

Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.