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Sharon Salzberg is a renowned author and mindfulness meditation teacher. Born in New York in 1952, she has a deep interest in Eastern philosophy and meditation from a young age. Her works cover a wide range of topics including personal growth, spiritual cultivation, and Buddhist wisdom, which have won her a large following among readers.

Famous Sharon Salzberg Quotes

“With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Equanimity can be hard to talk about.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up to each of our innate capacities for love is merely to recognize that.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta ﬂows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.”

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Book:Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Source: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

“We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.”

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Book:Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Source: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

“Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.”

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Book:Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Source: Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

“Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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Born: 1952
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Quotes: 359

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