Sharon Salzberg Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Commitment, Generosity, Giving

  Sharon Salzberg (1999). “A Heart as Wide as the World”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

• Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Lonely, Emo, Pain

  "Lovingkindness". Book by Sharon Salzberg, July 14, 2014.

• 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?'

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Caring, Thinking

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love and Compassion”, p.4, Sounds True

• The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Giving Up

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