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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

“The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Equanimity can be hard to talk about.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“Causing harm is never just a one-way street.”

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

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

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“No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It’s how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable.”

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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

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“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being—someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.”

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“When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.”

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“In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun.”

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

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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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“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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“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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“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

Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

About the Author

Born: 1952
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Quotes: 359

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