Quote

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

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
Way
Strengthens
Trains
Train
Physical
Meditation
Exercise
Body
Mind

More quotes by Sharon Salzberg

Image
What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
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
Image
Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
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
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
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
Image
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, I'm so stressed out. I could use some of that! A response I also sometimes hear, which amuses me a lot is, My partner should really meet you!
Sharon Salzberg
Image
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
Image
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
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
Sharon Salzberg
Image
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.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
Sharon Salzberg
Image
Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others
Sharon Salzberg