Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it."
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"Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Many strong emotions are actually intricate tapestries woven of various strands."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives—the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we’d just as soon forget."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism— a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for “number one.” In fact, just the opposite is true."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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