
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
– Sharon Salzberg
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- 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
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- When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people. – Margaret Heffernan
- What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let’s add the planet to that list – Sahndra Fon Dufe
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- He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves. – Christopher Hopper
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- In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days. – Adalbert de Vog
- Until now, I’ve never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel – Ally Condie
- With the lightness of being above the clouds gently wrapped in wings of love. – Kristian Goldmund Aumann
- 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
- A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. – Sharon Salzberg
- Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
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- Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment. – Sharon Salzberg
- The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything. – Sharon Salzberg
- When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away. – Sharon Salzberg
- To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
- We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts. – Sharon Salzberg
- 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
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- Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy. – Sharon Salzberg
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- Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives. – Sharon Salzberg
- What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives. – Sharon Salzberg
- Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look. – Sharon Salzberg
- We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity. – Sharon Salzberg
- The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people’s lives. – AE Samaan
- The greater a man’s folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life. – Dalai Lama XIV
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- Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death. – Mehmet Murat ildan
- If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live. – Dainin Katagiri