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72 quotes by Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg (born 1952) is a New York Times Best selling author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her emphasis is on vipassanā (insight) and mettā (loving-kindness) methods, and has been leading meditation retreats around the world for over three decades. All of these methods have their origins in...
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Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen... →

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Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of... →

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Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.

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Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the... →

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Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people... →

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Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great... →

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We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of... →

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Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their... →

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If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

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I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of... →

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We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness... →

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From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find... →

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Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And... →

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