Sharon Salzberg - Meditation Quotes

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Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time.

Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Sharon Salzberg
With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what's happening around us in the here & now.

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

Sharon Salzberg
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.

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

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

Sharon Salzberg