582 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.

Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.

Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to be overcome so that one day we can come to the "real" meditation.

If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.

To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.