Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving."
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"Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving."
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
"We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgiveโand forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The journey to loving ourselves doesnโt mean we like everything."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to loveโperhaps our greatest challenge as human beings."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of loving kindness and self-compassion, we can learn to love our flawed and imperfect selves. And in those moments of vulnerability, we open our hearts to connect with each other, as well. We are not perfect, but we are enough."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we canโt control, we maintain our energy for the quest."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"As human beings, weโre capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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