
Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.
– Sharon Salzberg
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- Treat me well and I will tell… Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits! – Ana Claudia Antunes
- We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion. – Sharon Salzberg
- We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts. – 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
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- those who get upset for being treated the way that they treat others, will never understand why others treat them the way that they treat others. – David H Martinez
- If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment. – Ernest Rutherford
- Life is an experiment, experiment by sending as many ideas in the universe and see which idea takes off and put your heart into that. – Matthew Donnelly
- 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
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
- By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness. – Sharon Salzberg
- When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience. – 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
- A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. – 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
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- 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 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
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- Go lovingly into each moment and experience your infinite being as you truly are. Feel, learn, play! – Jay Woodman
- We are with ourselves 24/7, so we should try to treat ourselves with the most kindness, love and respect. – Karen A Baquiran
- When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear. – Sharon Salzberg
- There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love-”letting go can feel scary. – Sharon Salzberg
- Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive. – Sharon Salzberg
- When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer-”if we take the time to stop and tune in. – Sharon Salzberg
- Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
- Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness. – Sharon Salzberg
- Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. – Mark Batterson
- Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them. – Sharon Salzberg
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- Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation. – Sharon Salzberg