Sharon Salzberg Quotes

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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope — a slight change, and all patterns and configurations alter.

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Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

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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

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Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

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To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

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When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

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It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

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It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential.

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In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

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With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

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We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

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We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.

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The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart.... Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

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The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

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True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.

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Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

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I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that I might find a hidden source of love and compassion. Like a homing instinct for freedom, my intuitive sense that this was possible was the faint, flickering, yet undeniable expression of faith.

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We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.

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Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

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Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

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