We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of.
– Sharon Salzberg
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- If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care. – Sharon Salzberg
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- When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love. – Sharon Salzberg
- The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good. – Deborah Day
- Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. – Mary Karr
- It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark. – Richelle E Goodrich
- 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
- 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
- Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
- 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
- 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
- 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
- We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings. – Sharon Salzberg
- The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. – Sharon Salzberg
- Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy. – 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
- Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff. – Sharon Salzberg
- You have to be purposeful and intense to reclaim your lost years – Sunday Adelaja
- You need to understand the principle of intensity to reclaim time – Sunday Adelaja
- The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls. – Marianne Williamson
- The first step to reclaim your power to control your own life is to take responsibility for your life completely. – Stephen Richards
- The passion of God is to restore and reclaim the whole earth – Sunday Adelaja
- In nude protests, the very same body that is objectified and subjected to endless scrutiny and policing is used to reclaim power. – Malebo Sephodi
- Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them…It is unforgivable not to reclaim them. – Holli Kenley
- Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them…It is unforgivable not to reclaim them. – Holli Kenley
- It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind. – Katherine Marsh
- You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. – Bryant McGill
- What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that’s it? – Rebecca Wells
- Remember, you are powerful and you can always reclaim your space. – Amy Leigh Mercree
- Flawed, we’re truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful. – Justina Chen
- The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles. – Samuel R Delany
- Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg