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Sharon Salzberg Inspirational Quotes (96)

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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
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Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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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.
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The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.
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Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.
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I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind. Page 62
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Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.
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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
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My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I’m told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don’t vote.
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Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.
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Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you you won't stand up for other people.
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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
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By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
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We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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