The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.
– 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 may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them. – Sharon Salzberg
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mindfulness is a quiet mind, an aware mind. Mindfulness itself is not about -˜arriving,’ but about being. – Jean Moreau
- With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. – Sharon Salzberg
- Mindset is your beliefs about your potential, skills, strength, intelligence and choices. Through mindfulness you can change your mindset. – Amit Ray
- Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart – Sharon Salzberg
- Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing. – Sharon Salzberg
- When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently. – 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
- Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. – Sara Sheridan
- Many men have children, but not many children have ‘Fathers’. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills – Fela Durotoye
- When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love. – 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
- Love yourself to love others.Be yourself to understand others. Be the light to show the way to others.Be peaceful to bring peace to the world. – Debasish Mridha
- Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
- There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully. – 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
- There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others. – Sharon Salzberg
- The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out. – Sharon Salzberg
- 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
- One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. – Franz Kafka
- Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff. – Sharon Salzberg
- When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear. – Sharon Salzberg
- 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
- We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion. – Sharon Salzberg
- A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. – Sharon Salzberg
- Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity. – Sharon Salzberg
- Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it. – Sharon Salzberg
- To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. – Sharon Salzberg
- Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point. – Sharon Salzberg
- We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of. – Sharon Salzberg