Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves."
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"To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we develop our ability to love in one realm, we simultaneously nourish our ability in others, as long as we remain open to the flow of insight and compassion."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it’s disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn’t ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it’s necessary to start with ourselves."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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