Sharon Salzberg Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Kindness, Journey

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Nov 28, 2013

• Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Offering, Validation, Generosity

• The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Art, Feelings

  Sharon Salzberg (1999). “A Heart as Wide as the World”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

• Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meaningful, Moving, Recovery

• Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mean, Feelings, Trying

  "How Doing Nothing Can Help You Truly Live" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2010.

• In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Mean, Space

  "How Doing Nothing Can Help You Truly Live" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2010.

• 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.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Heart, Generosity

• Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meaningful, People, Feelings

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