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

Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we’ll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

— Sharon Salzberg

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

— Sharon Salzberg

I’ve spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

— Sharon Salzberg

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

— Sharon Salzberg

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

— Sharon Salzberg

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

— Sharon Salzberg

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.

— Sharon Salzberg

I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.

— Sharon Salzberg

Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

— Sharon Salzberg

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

— Sharon Salzberg

At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.

— Sharon Salzberg

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

— 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

It’s interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they’re reduced to the barest terms of survival. That’s what provides tension in a lot of films.

— Sharon Salzberg

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.

— Sharon Salzberg

To cherish others is to cherish ourselves. To cherish ourselves is to cherish others. And in that same way, we relate to the truth. If we support it, if we embrace it, if we uphold it, we will be embraced by it, we will be supported and upheld by it.

— Sharon Salzberg

As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.

— Sharon Salzberg

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

— Sharon Salzberg

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

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

— Sharon Salzberg
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