Sharon Salzberg Quotes

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• We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Life, Letting Go, Home

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013

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• It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Running, Dark, Meditation Practice

  Sharon Salzberg (2017). “Real Happiness: A 28-day Programme to Connect with the Power of Meditation”, p.94, Hay House, Inc

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• The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Yoga, Heart, Thinking

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• The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Differences, Attention, Misery

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering and to simply let go of the thoughts and begin again. It is a way of changing our relationship to our thoughts, so we're not so consumed by them, with no sense of space. Having a newly spacious relationship to our thoughts brings both peace and freedom.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Thinking, Space

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Mar 28, 2017

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• Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Expression, Response

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jun 15, 2013

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• We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Past, Needs

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 10, 2012

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

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 17, 2012

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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.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Happy, Lying

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Giving Up, Mistake, Don't Give Up

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• We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Motivational, Growth, Grows

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 12, 2012

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• True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Letting Go, Unnecessary

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 20, 2012

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• To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Effort, Meditation, Detachment

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.72, Shambhala Publications

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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.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Truth, Learning, Steps

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

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meditation, Mindfulness, Attention

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Aug 06, 2014

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• In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Realizing, Moments

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Apr 29, 2013

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• Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meditation, Relate, Happenings

  "You Can’t Fail at Meditation". Interview with Dan Harris, www.lionsroar.com. April 12, 2015.

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• Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Energy, Waste, Distraction

  Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.43, Workman Publishing

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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.

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  Disappointment, Single Mom, Profound

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.6, Workman Publishing

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• If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Loneliness, Heart, World

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• What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Important, Come Up, Relate

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mindfulness

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 16, 2013

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• Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Mindfulness, Watches

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.111, Workman Publishing

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• You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

  Sharon Salzberg

  Running, Imagine, Dare

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Dec 12, 2012

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• Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Integrity, Different, Needs

  Sharon Salzberg (2002). “Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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