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Sharon Salzberg
American
Author
Born:
1952
Compassion
Experience
Life
People
Suffering
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
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Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.
Sharon Salzberg
Commitment
World
Voting
Country
Our
Ourselves
Another
Expression
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 according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
Sharon Salzberg
Nature
Crazy
Fruit
Karma
World
Law
Will
Live
Universe
Kind
Seed
Some
Laws
Arising
Accidental
Passing
According
Gets
Just
Happen
In-Laws
Which
Us
Certain
Teaches
Planted
Away
Things
Things Happen
Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
Sharon Salzberg
Patience
Emotions
Denial
Demanding
Devil
Stage
Flower
Chrysalis
Our
Hurry
Ripping
Rather
Open
Budding
Over
Caterpillar
Making
Up
Than
Get
Being
Unfolding
Process
Mean
Pact
Means
Engaged
Aspirations
Ignoring
Wholeheartedly
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
Sharon Salzberg
Loneliness
You
Heart
World
Fear
Isolation
Own
Living
Go
Your
Less
Deeper
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
Sharon Salzberg
Ignorance
Change
Suffering
Courage
Compassion
Bitterness
Holding
Our
Negligence
Those
Support
Like
Clinging
Conditions
Holding On
Things
Need
We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
Sharon Salzberg
Art
Strength
Compassion
Power
Isolation
Sense
Community
Difficult
Thinking
Response
Rigid
Clarity
Learn
Redefining
Practicing
Go
Cultivating
Situations
While
Fierce
Letting
Letting Go
We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.
Sharon Salzberg
Exactly
See
Seed
Come
Like
Know
How
End
Times
Front
Going
May
Just
Fruition
Story
Manifest
Might
Realize
Us
Hard
Planting
Many
Away
Right
Things
Right Away
Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.
Sharon Salzberg
Knowledge
Experience
Compassion
Power
Our
Gifts
Someone
Also
Vulnerability
Offer
Experienced
Depth
Us
Who
Trauma
Universal
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 recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.
Sharon Salzberg
Positive
Time
You
Yourself
Mind
Thought
Feeling
Meditation
Other
Caring
See
Some
More
Through
Recovery
Open
Self-Defeating
Unworthy
Up
Begin
Options
Quieter
Move
Patterns
Meaningful
Your
Dedicating
Help
Expression
Grows
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 tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.
Sharon Salzberg
Great
Thoughts
Memories
Blame
Yourself
People
Strong
Random
Some People
Important
Few
Thinking
Meditation
Other
State
Enter
Some
Through
Disappear
Idea
Concentration
Mistaken
Times
Any
Tranquility
Plans
Certainly
Flooded
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
Sharon Salzberg
Life
Voting
Value
Abstract
Taking
Like
Breathing
Alchemy
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 see, in truth, what they bring us.
Sharon Salzberg
Love
Truth
Vision
Losing
Compassion
Weak
Find
See
Lead
Make
Discernment
Learn
How
Just
Them
Us
Bring
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.
Sharon Salzberg
Work
Time
Suffering
People
World
Bad People
Tremendous
Bad
Outrageous
Clear
Know
Look
Qualities
Make
Another
Around
How
Very
Them
Us
Actions
Things
Bring
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
Sharon Salzberg
Kindness
Sometimes
Compassion
Difficult
Loving
View
Strengths
To cherish others is to cherish ourselves. To cherish ourselves is to cherish others. And in that same way, we relate to the truth. If we support it, if we embrace it, if we uphold it, we will be embraced by it, we will be supported and upheld by it.
Sharon Salzberg
Truth
Will
Relate
Others
Way
Ourselves
Embrace
Embraced
Support
Supported
Cherish
Upheld
Uphold
Same
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
Sharon Salzberg
Be Happy
Happy
Wiser
Make
Expand
Want
Bigger
Means
Notion
Need
When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
Sharon Salzberg
Good
You
World
Good Place
Open
Place
Wide
I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.
Sharon Salzberg
Kindness
People
Meekness
Power
Think
Sickly
Like
Force
Often
Maybe
Whereas
Sweetness
Things
Associations
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.
Sharon Salzberg
Happy
Compassion
Something
Opening
Makes
Us
Why
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 transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
Sharon Salzberg
Life
Experience
Will
Matters
Nothing
Carefully
Our
Solid
Characteristic
Find
Unchanging
Point
Point Of View
True
Buddhist
Look
Emptiness
Does
Any
Mean
Nothing Matters
View
Transparency
Core
At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.
Sharon Salzberg
Music
Myself
News
Car
Drive
Mindful
Some
Fact
Retreat
Am
Hear
Hand
End
Times
Get
Sitting
Listen
Move
Move Forward
Want
Turn
Turn-On
Notice
Moment
Forward
Radio
Away
Actually
Watch
I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.
Sharon Salzberg
Words
Matter
Compassion
Practice
Meditation
Woven
Throughout
Never
Implied
Said
Always
Inevitably
Method
Used
Using
Even
Technique
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
Survival
People
Difficult
Films
Tension
Terms
Reduced
Oppressive
Provides
Lot
Situations
Different
Interesting
Different Things
Things
Bring
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.
Sharon Salzberg
Life
Truth
Saying
Me
Suffering
Experience
Emotions
Fear
First
Important
Out
About
Had
No-One
Buddha
Noble
Buddhism
Know
Talked
Course
Within
Said
Been
Loud
Truths
Ever
Right
Four
Here
It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life.
Sharon Salzberg
Life
Suffering
Control
Controlling
Pain
Difficult
Humiliated
Else
Our
Sight
Ourselves
Out
Able
Admit
Someone
Cruel
Feel
Like
Been
Conditioning
Tuck
Unfolding
Them
Should
Suffer
Away
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
Sharon Salzberg
Faith
You
Despair
Enough
Kind
Ongoing
Opposite
Commodity
Process
Either
Right
Right Kind
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