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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.

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“Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we’re in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“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

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“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

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“By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives—the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we’d just as soon forget.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“To truly love ourselves, we must open to our wholeness, rather than clinging to the shivers of ourselves represented by old stories. Living in a story of a limited self – to any degree – is not love.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Maybe we don't need to correct some terrible deficiency. Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit and a wise heart.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred or by real love for oneself.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for “number one.” In fact, just the opposite is true.”

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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

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“Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.”

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“When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“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

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“The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It’s not a matter of learning techniques to “make friends and influence people.” Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.”

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“Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance—for ourselves, as well as others— over time, we can let go of our anger, even when we’ve been hurt to the core. But that doesn’t mean we ever forget.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.”

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“Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.”

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Born: 1952
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Books & Sources

Real Love: The Art of Mindful ConnectionRelated source material

LovingkindnessRelated source material

Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day ProgramRelated source material

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of HappinessRelated source material

Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest ExperienceRelated source material

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and PeaceRelated source material

A Heart as Wide as the WorldRelated source material

The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & CompassionRelated source material

Real Happiness: The Power of MeditationRelated source material

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day ProgramRelated source material

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