Sharon Salzberg Quotes
As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.
Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.
Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.
For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.
I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.
Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.
Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.
It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.
The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.
The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.
Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.
Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level of anguish. They just create from a different place.
Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.
