582 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer – if we take the time to stop and tune in.

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

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Faith is not a commodity we either have or don’t have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences – good and bad alike – are opportunities to learn and grow.

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

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.

The Buddha actually described at some length what he meant by being a good friend in the world. He talked about a good friend as someone who is constant in our times of happiness and also in our times of adversity or unhappiness. A friend will not forsake us when we are in trouble nor rejoice in our misfortune. The Buddha described a true friend as being a helper, someone who will protect us when we are unable to take care of ourselves, who will be a refuge to us when we are afraid.