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The heart is a generous muscle.

The heart is a generous muscle.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  1. 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
  2. A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something. – Billy Graham
  3. A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person – Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
  4. These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily. – Sharon Salzberg
  5. The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame. – Sharon Salzberg
  6. Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart – Sharon Salzberg
  7. He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart, and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have. – Anne Osterlund
  8. I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it’s an engine. – Amit Kalantri
  9. my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle, – Franz Kafka
  10. Courage comes in different forms. There’s strength–that’s the muscle. But love’s the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything. – Nora Roberts
  11. Real Dominance isn’t always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured… In heart. – Lucian Bane
  12. …the heart is a muscle like any other. Tearing it down is the only way to make it stronger. – Sarah Skilton
  13. When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear. – Sharon Salzberg
  14. We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion. – Sharon Salzberg
  15. Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all. – Sharon Salzberg
  16. Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  17. Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness. – Sharon Salzberg
  18. Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity. – Sharon Salzberg
  19. Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it. – Sharon Salzberg
  20. To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. – Sharon Salzberg
  21. With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire. – Sharon Salzberg
  22. If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care. – Sharon Salzberg
  23. The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything. – Sharon Salzberg
  24. When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle. – Sharon Salzberg
  25. Causing harm is never just a one-way street. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. 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
  27. There is so much we just can’t see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body. – Sharon Salzberg
  29. Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition. – Sharon Salzberg
  30. Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was. – Sharon Salzberg
  31. We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings. – Sharon Salzberg
  32. The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy. – Sharon Salzberg
  33. Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace. – Sharon Salzberg
  34. To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. – Sharon Salzberg
  36. Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point. – Sharon Salzberg
  37. We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of. – Sharon Salzberg
  38. Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy. – Sharon Salzberg
  39. Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are. – Sharon Salzberg
  40. As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. – Sharon Salzberg

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