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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

“There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love—letting go can feel scary.”

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“Letting go is actually a healthy foundation upon which we can open up to real love—to giving, receiving, and experiencing it authentically and organically.”

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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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“We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.”

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“Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them.”

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“These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.”

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“Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.”

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“We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.”

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“Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.”

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“Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.”

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“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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“Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.”

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“Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.”

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“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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“When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.”

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

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“Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.”

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

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“The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.”

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

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

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“Sometimes people in abusive situations think they’re responsible for the other person’s happiness or that they’re going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it’s not all up to you to make someone else happy.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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“In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.”

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“So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.”

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“As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about.”

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“Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.”

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“Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.”

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“Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.”

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“When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.”

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“It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.”

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“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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“Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.”

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“Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.”

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“Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.”

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“Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another.”

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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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“Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.”

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“Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions.”

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“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.”

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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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“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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“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.”

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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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“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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“Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.”

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“The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.”

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Book:Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

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About the Author

Born: 1952
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Quotes: 359

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