582 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

It is because of that balanced relationship to the moment that mindfulness serves as the platform for insight... if we feel an emotion, for example, and struggle against it right away, there is not going to be a lot of learning going on. In the same way, if we are swamped by that emotion, overcome by it, there won't be enough space for there to be learning or insight.

Once in a while, you have to let your mind just go.

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.

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