Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Letting go is actually a healthy foundation upon which we can open up to real love—to giving, receiving, and experiencing it authentically and organically."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The heart is a generous muscle."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It’s how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity."
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
"Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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