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With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  1. 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
  2. We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts. – Sharon Salzberg
  3. To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  4. There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation. – Andrew Loomis
  5. We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion. – Sharon Salzberg
  6. We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. – Sharon Salzberg
  7. We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of. – Sharon Salzberg
  8. Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
  9. 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
  10. By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. – Sharon Salzberg
  11. Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment. – Sharon Salzberg
  12. 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
  13. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, – Sharon Salzberg
  14. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  15. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  16. Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there. – Debasish Mridha
  17. Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively. – Sharon Salzberg
  18. Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises. – Sharon Salzberg
  19. What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives. – Sharon Salzberg
  20. Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment – Sharon Salzberg
  21. Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body. – Sharon Salzberg
  22. Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment. – Sharon Salzberg
  23. Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance. – Sharon Salzberg
  24. Meditation is not about what’s happening, it is about how we’re relating to what’s happening. – Sharon Salzberg
  25. When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good. – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
  27. Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice. – Abhijit Naskar
  28. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. – Sharon Salzberg
  29. When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. – Sharon Salzberg
  30. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. – Sharon Salzberg
  31. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets. – Sharon Salzberg
  32. Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. – Sharon Salzberg
  33. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  34. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight. – Sharon Salzberg
  36. 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
  37. A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. – Sharon Salzberg
  38. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. – Pema Chdrn
  39. The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything. – Sharon Salzberg
  40. Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy. – Sharon Salzberg

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