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I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.
– Sharon Salzberg

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  1. 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
  2. There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others. – Sharon Salzberg
  3. There is no such thing as destruction in this world. Eternal Thing [vastu] is not destroyed, its phase state (avastha) is destroyed. – Dada Bhagwan
  4. A society that has destroyed freedom and beauty must itself be destroyed. – Bryant McGill
  5. He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn’t believe in people. – Nadia Hashimi
  6. In a civilization when love is gone we turn to justice and when justice is gone we turn to power and when power is gone we turn to violence. – Kare Anderson
  7. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings. – Sharon Salzberg
  8. Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it. – Sharon Salzberg
  9. If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren’t all that fundamental. – Ruthanna Emrys
  10. We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion. – Sharon Salzberg
  11. A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know. – Sharon Salzberg
  12. When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love. – Sharon Salzberg
  13. We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. – Sharon Salzberg
  14. …people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. – Neil Postman
  15. 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
  16. As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. – Sharon Salzberg
  17. Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  18. If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing. – David L Conroy
  19. Inheritance and culture obscure people’s higher capacities. – Idries Shah
  20. The set goal can release inner capacities and involve all human potential – Sunday Adelaja
  21. Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. – Doris Lessing
  22. Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. – Ron Suskind
  23. Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55 – Marlene Steinberg
  24. True, the body’s easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled – yet there’s that in a man that is never destroyed. – Diana Gabaldon
  25. With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff. – Sharon Salzberg
  27. Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it. – Sharon Olds
  28. To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed. – Auliq Ice
  29. How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. – John Green
  30. When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  31. If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care. – Sharon Salzberg
  32. Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-”or more complicated-”than it is today. – Sharon Salzberg
  33. Causing harm is never just a one-way street. – Sharon Salzberg
  34. When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear. – Sharon Salzberg
  35. 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
  36. Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity. – Sharon Salzberg
  37. To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. – Sharon Salzberg
  38. 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
  39. Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point. – Sharon Salzberg
  40. We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of. – Sharon Salzberg

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