Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg

"All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others"
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"All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others"
Sharon Salzberg Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
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"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."
Sharon Salzberg Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
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"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."
Sharon Salzberg
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"Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives."
Sharon Salzberg Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
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"Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it."
Sharon Salzberg Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
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"Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing."
Sharon Salzberg Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
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"Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively."
Sharon Salzberg Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
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"We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it."
Sharon Salzberg The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion
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"As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others."
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"Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way."
Sharon Salzberg
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"As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again."
Sharon Salzberg
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"Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you you won't stand up for other people."
Sharon Salzberg
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"I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all."
Sharon Salzberg
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"Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options."
Sharon Salzberg
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"Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself."
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"We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on."
Sharon Salzberg
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"I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith."
Sharon Salzberg
"If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness."
Sharon Salzberg
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"The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud."
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"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."
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