Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience. Sharon Salzberg More Quotes by Sharon Salzberg More Quotes From Sharon Salzberg There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you. Sharon Salzberg suits-you meditation practice As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others. Sharon Salzberg strands lovingkindness connections Its never too late to take a moment to look. Sharon Salzberg meditation-practice too-late looks It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films. Sharon Salzberg difficult-situations people interesting Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us. Sharon Salzberg energy compassion love-is By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. Sharon Salzberg compassion meditation home The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred. Sharon Salzberg hatred self thinking over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62 Sharon Salzberg pages offering kindness As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not. Sharon Salzberg praise helping love-is The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy. Sharon Salzberg patterns kindness long We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind. Sharon Salzberg kind religious needs An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. Sharon Salzberg design compassion motivational Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance. Sharon Salzberg analysis meditation acceptance Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it. Sharon Salzberg distraction waste energy Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition. Sharon Salzberg constant share faces Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look. Sharon Salzberg single-mom moments looks Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. Sharon Salzberg dedication demand path Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness. Sharon Salzberg mindfulness kindness mean It is because of that balanced relationship to the moment that mindfulness serves as the platform for insight... if we feel an emotion, for example, and struggle against it right away, there is not going to be a lot of learning going on. In the same way, if we are swamped by that emotion, overcome by it, there won't be enough space for there to be learning or insight. Sharon Salzberg space struggle way I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness. Sharon Salzberg old-habits practice kindness
