Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."
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"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Letting go of the belief that weโre powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our ability not only to heal but also to genuinely love and receive the love of others."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Mindfulness wonโt ensure youโll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness wonโt enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, itโs easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Living in a story of a limited selfโto any degreeโis not love."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When we experience inner impoverishment, love for another too easily becomes hunger: for reassurance, for acclaim, for affirmation of our worth."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we donโt sense it."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for oneโs friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but itโs also more grounded & sustainable."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
"From our first breath to our last, weโre presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs."
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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