582 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.

Let the power of intention lead the way.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

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

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.

We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.