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Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.

Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  1. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  2. Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
  3. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, – Sharon Salzberg
  4. When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away. – Sharon Salzberg
  5. 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
  6. I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. – Frida Kahlo
  7. You want weapons? We´re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! This room´s the greatest arsenal we could have. – Doctor who
  8. Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other. – Wilma Stockenstrm
  9. When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings – Sharon Salzberg
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully. – Sharon Salzberg
  13. 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
  14. The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything. – Sharon Salzberg
  15. Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness. – Sharon Salzberg
  16. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. – Sharon Salzberg
  17. Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened. – Sharon Salzberg
  18. Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive. – Sharon Salzberg
  19. 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
  20. Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root. – Sharon Salzberg
  21. The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy. – Sharon Salzberg
  22. Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone. – Sharon Salzberg
  23. We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion. – Sharon Salzberg
  24. A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. – Sharon Salzberg
  25. When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. – Sharon Salzberg
  27. As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. – Anthony Liccione
  29. Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return. – Gretchen Rubin
  30. Never let the future disturb you – you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present… – Marcus Aurelius
  31. 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
  32. If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care. – Sharon Salzberg
  33. Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-”or more complicated-”than it is today. – Sharon Salzberg
  34. Causing harm is never just a one-way street. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu
  36. Kindness and love, love and kindness.. You can’t have one without the other.. Kindness and love go hand-in-hand. – Heather Wolf
  37. Receptive prayer is one of the most powerful weapons against spiritual u-turns. – Glenn C Stewart
  38. The power of the Blood of Jesus, the Word of God & the name of Jesus are the believers weapons of defense against the Devil. – Pazaria Smith
  39. Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference. – Dave Matthes
  40. He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind. – Arthur Urbane Dilley

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