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We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  1. We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion. – Sharon Salzberg
  2. You can’t take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, love will one day blossom in your heart! – Avijeet Das
  3. We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of. – Sharon Salzberg
  4. A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. – Sharon Salzberg
  5. Each one of you carries the potential to blossom like flowers. When you blossom, petals of your mind open and the fragrance spread far and near. – Banani Ray
  6. A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
  7. With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. – Sharon Salzberg
  8. 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
  9. When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  10. When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience. – Sharon Salzberg
  11. Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. – Sharon Salzberg
  12. Our senses are often the gateway to our stories. – Sharon Salzberg
  13. When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love. – Sharon Salzberg
  14. I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through. – Sharon Salzberg
  15. Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  16. All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others – Sharon Salzberg
  17. Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience. – Sharon Salzberg
  18. If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care. – Sharon Salzberg
  19. Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment. – Sharon Salzberg
  20. The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything. – Sharon Salzberg
  21. When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away. – Sharon Salzberg
  22. To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  23. We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts. – Sharon Salzberg
  24. If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds? – Sharon Salzberg
  25. We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. – Sharon Salzberg
  27. Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism-” a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew. – Sharon Salzberg
  29. The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. – Sharon Salzberg
  30. We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. – Allan Dare Pearce
  31. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
  32. People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
  33. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  34. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. – Sharon Salzberg
  36. Trees allow their old leaves to fall so they can then blossom. – Renee Rentmeester
  37. Don’t hang onto anything too tightly -“ all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom. – Rachael Bermingham
  38. Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff. – Sharon Salzberg
  39. When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  40. Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining. – Matthew Jarpe

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