Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun."
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"In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It’s not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it’s eminently possible."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings"
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence of community and generosity in unexpected places."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"No matter what we think we should do, I don’t think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor—or your boss—when you can’t stand him. But if you try to understand your feelings of dislike with mindfulness and compassion, being sure not to forget self-compassion, you create the possibility for change."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up to each of our innate capacities for love is merely to recognize that."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage"
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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