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To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.

To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  1. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset. – Sharon Salzberg
  2. Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity. – Sharon Salzberg
  3. With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. – Sharon Salzberg
  4. We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion. – Sharon Salzberg
  5. We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. – Sharon Salzberg
  6. We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of. – Sharon Salzberg
  7. When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle. – Sharon Salzberg
  8. The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out. – Sharon Salzberg
  9. Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent – Susan Scott
  10. Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong – Sharon Salzberg
  11. When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. – Sharon Salzberg
  12. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. – Sharon Salzberg
  13. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, – Sharon Salzberg
  14. 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
  15. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets. – Sharon Salzberg
  16. Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. – Sharon Salzberg
  17. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  18. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. – Sharon Salzberg
  19. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  20. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle. – Sharon Salzberg
  21. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight. – Sharon Salzberg
  22. You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others. – Marie Lu
  23. Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty. – Amit Kalantri
  24. Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? – Johnny Rich
  25. Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. – George Bernard Shaw
  26. Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. – George Bernard Shaw
  27. Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there. – Debasish Mridha
  28. When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe! – Julieanne OConnor
  29. When we practice self-compassion in our lives, we are compelled to be more understanding and accepting toward ourselves. – Jose Incer
  30. 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
  31. A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. – Sharon Salzberg
  32. Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves. – Sharon Salzberg
  33. If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care. – Sharon Salzberg
  34. The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away. – Sharon Salzberg
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings. – Sharon Salzberg
  39. The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. – Sharon Salzberg
  40. Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy. – Sharon Salzberg

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