Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty. Sharon Salzberg More Quotes by Sharon Salzberg More Quotes From Sharon Salzberg I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live. Sharon Salzberg home It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to our own inner world. Without insight into our internal cycles of pleasure and pain, desires and fears, there is a strong sense of being removed, apart or disconnected. When we do have an understanding of our inner lives, it provides an intuitive opening, even without words, to the ties that exist between ourselves and others. Sharon Salzberg pain ties strong Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body. Sharon Salzberg meditation mind exercise Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain. Sharon Salzberg sentimental pain love As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations. Sharon Salzberg able meditation practice Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature. Sharon Salzberg ego killing practice While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment. Sharon Salzberg wander moments mind You cannot fail at meditation. Sharon Salzberg failing meditation We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us. Sharon Salzberg reactions caught forget By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. Sharon Salzberg effort changed may People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments. Sharon Salzberg meditation disappointment people When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?' Sharon Salzberg caring kindness thinking Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them. Sharon Salzberg focus meditation judging We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings. Sharon Salzberg greater care ease Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions. Sharon Salzberg pain hurt thinking I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher. Sharon Salzberg spiritual-teachers spiritual teacher Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time. Sharon Salzberg meditation time profound Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space. Sharon Salzberg filled space mind Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money. Sharon Salzberg fearful ifs We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality. Sharon Salzberg effort cutting reality
