Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.

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

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

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

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

With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.

The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

Ask yourself, who is the one suffering from this anger? The person who has harmed me has gone on to live their life (or perhaps has died), while I am the one sitting here feeling the persecution, burning and constriction of anger. Out of compassion for myself, to ease my own heart, may I let go.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns.

Meditation is not about whats happening, it is about how were relating to whats happening.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.