The Buddha actually described at some length what he meant by being a good friend in the world. He talked about a good friend as someone who is constant in our times of happiness and also in our times of adversity or unhappiness. A friend will not forsake us when we are in trouble nor rejoice in our misfortune. The Buddha described a true friend as being a helper, someone who will protect us when we are unable to take care of ourselves, who will be a refuge to us when we are afraid.

— Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg Quotes

If I am feeling stupid, angry, jealous, or humiliated, I bring total awareness and acknowledgment to those feelings. I admit my failures and own them. Then I usually start laughing as I realize how small and inconsequential I really am and also how ridiculous my problems are!

— Sharon Salzberg

You could search the whole world over and never find anyone as deserving of your love as yourself.

— Sharon Salzberg

What arises in our experience is much less important than how we relate to what arises in our experience.

— Sharon Salzberg

To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.

— Sharon Salzberg

We can always begin again. No matter what happens, no matter how long its been, no matter how far from our aspirations we may have strayed, we can always always begin again.

— Sharon Salzberg

When we forgive someone, we don’t pretend that the harm didn’t happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.

— Sharon Salzberg

The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.

— Sharon Salzberg

What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

— Sharon Salzberg

It is a great happiness to be able to give.

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When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.

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When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.

— Sharon Salzberg

Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the relationship. What’s more, we’re encouraged to accept the impermanence of all things: the flower that blooms today will be gone tomorrow, the objects we possess will break or fade or lose their utility, our relationships will change, life will end.

— Sharon Salzberg

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

— Sharon Salzberg

Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.

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When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.

— Sharon Salzberg

Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.

— Sharon Salzberg

When we can step back even briefly from our hurt, sorrow, and anger, when we put our faith in the possibility of change, we create the possibility for non-judgmental inquiry that aims for healing rather than victory.

— Sharon Salzberg

All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage.

— Sharon Salzberg

By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.

— Sharon Salzberg

Why be unhappy about something if you can do something about it? If you can’t do anything about it, why be unhappy about it?

— Sharon Salzberg
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