Sharon Salzberg Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• 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

• Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Quality, Commodity

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.9, Penguin

• As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

  Sharon Salzberg

  People, Suffering, Quality

  "The Buddha’s Five Protections - Part 1" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2010.

• Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Unique, Compassion, Meditation

• 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

• The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Quality, Doe, Mindfulness

  "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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