Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
Sharon Salzberg
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
Author
Writer
New York City
New York
Voice
Forms
Form
Using
Body
Training
May
Meditation
Done
Silence
Movement
Emphasize
Attention
Engaging
Sound
Stillness
More quotes by Sharon Salzberg
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.
Sharon Salzberg
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.
Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
Sharon Salzberg
Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
Sharon Salzberg
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.
Sharon Salzberg
You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.
Sharon Salzberg
I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.
Sharon Salzberg
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
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
Sharon Salzberg
In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?
Sharon Salzberg
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
Sharon Salzberg
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
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
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
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
Sharon Salzberg
There are many different ways to practice meditation it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.
Sharon Salzberg
To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.
Sharon Salzberg
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.
Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
Sharon Salzberg
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
Sharon Salzberg