Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage"
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"All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage"
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"We are born ready to love and be loved. It is our birthright."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we forgive someone, we don’t pretend that the harm didn’t happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we’ve perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"There are an incalculable—even infinite—number of situations in which we can practice forgiveness. Expecting it to be a singular action—motivated by the sheer imperative to move on and forget—can be more damaging than the original feelings of anger. Accepting forgiveness as pluralistic and as an ongoing, individualized process opens us up to realize the role that our own needs play in conflict resolution."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong"
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love—letting go can feel scary."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Evolutionary biologists tell us we have a “negativity bias” that makes our brains remember negative events more strongly than positive ones. So when we’re feeling lost or discouraged, it can be very hard to conjure up memories and feelings of happiness and ease."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation but for most of us this is a leap of logic, not a leap of the heart."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance—for ourselves, as well as others— over time, we can let go of our anger, even when we’ve been hurt to the core. But that doesn’t mean we ever forget."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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