Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others."
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"The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others."
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
"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
"The journey to loving ourselves doesnโt mean we like everything."
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
"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
"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
"The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"I believe that there is only one kind of loveโreal loveโtrying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions of our culture, and the habits of fear, self-condemnation, and isolation that we tend to acquire just by living a life."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?"
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different wayโwith awareness, balance, and love"
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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