Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves."
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"When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in."
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 love—real love—trying 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
"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
"Our senses are often the gateway to our stories."
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
"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 way—with awareness, balance, and love"
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
"Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else—fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,"
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we’ve perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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