Quote

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

Sharon Salzberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
Author
Writer
New York City
New York
May
Turn
Stuck
Matter
Control
Ten
Long
Dark
Turned
Years
Turns
Capacity
Love
Happiness
Room
Darkened
Sense
Thousand
Illuminated
Doesn
Rooms
Limitations
Light
Week
Limitation

More quotes by Sharon Salzberg

Image
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
Sharon Salzberg
Image
It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
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.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
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
Image
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
Sharon Salzberg