With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
– Sharon Salzberg
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- Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity. – Sharon Salzberg
- 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
- We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion. – Sharon Salzberg
- The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, – Sharon Salzberg
- The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others. – Sharon Salzberg
- Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
- When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away. – Sharon Salzberg
- Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings. – Sharon Salzberg
- Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them. – Sharon Salzberg
- Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it. – Sharon Salzberg
- We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. – Sharon Salzberg
- The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets. – Sharon Salzberg
- Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. – Sharon Salzberg
- Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic. – Sharon Salzberg
- Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace. – Sharon Salzberg
- When we let the expectations of others or own unreasonable self-expectations rule, we silence the power of our Legacies. – Joy E DeKok
- All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage – Sharon Salzberg
- I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. – Frida Kahlo
- Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity. – Sharon Salzberg
- By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. – Sharon Salzberg
- Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us. – Sharon Salzberg
- We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again – Sharon Salzberg
- When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way. – Sharon Salzberg
- The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- 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
- Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff. – Sharon Salzberg
- The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. – Sharon Salzberg
- Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving. – Sharon Salzberg
- The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out. – Sharon Salzberg
- We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity. – Sharon Salzberg
- I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet. – Pablo Neruda
- Mindfulness is a quiet mind, an aware mind. Mindfulness itself is not about -˜arriving,’ but about being. – Jean Moreau
- Kindness and love, love and kindness.. You can’t have one without the other.. Kindness and love go hand-in-hand. – Heather Wolf
- There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully. – Sharon Salzberg
- 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
- The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything. – Sharon Salzberg
- Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
- We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
- Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness. – Sharon Salzberg
- The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy. – Sharon Salzberg