44 Sharon Salzberg Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sharon Salzberg

American Author

Born: 1952

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It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice. Sharon Salzberg

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You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate. Sharon Salzberg

You Believe Adopt Learn How Dogma Order Anything Meditate

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested. Sharon Salzberg

Meditation Emphasized Practicing Continue Traditions Anyone Interested Who Started

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love. Sharon Salzberg

Love Revenge Strong Compassion Power Important Weak More Than Taught

My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I'm told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don't vote. Sharon Salzberg

You Vote Single Pay Every Everyone Once System Would Would-Be Fine Ideal Single Person Australia Person Where Registered Registration Turn

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space. Sharon Salzberg

Love Space Mind Develop Resembles Filled

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again. Sharon Salzberg

Tired Mind Thought Doubt Too Everyone Able Over Without Always Begin Times Again Dislikes Start Meditate

We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found. Sharon Salzberg

Future Training Old Compassion Fears Perception Too Mindfulness Our Latent Perceive Something Habits Attention Sort Stir Provocative Which Then Skills Moment Using Found Actually Present Present Moment

What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forever, and something opens up and releases. Sharon Salzberg

Good Great Feeling Important Practice Holding Our Release Has-Been Physical Insight Something Through Take Feels Like Opens Go Been Up Times Forever Getting Where Forms Many Even Good Feeling

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see. Sharon Salzberg

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Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. Sharon Salzberg

Wisdom Together Experience Protection Word Our Way All Things Insight Seeing Arise Buddhism Knowing Due Coming Causes Conditions Certain Use Certain Way Deeply Actually Things

When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around us, not affecting what is going on around us, when we see through that, that we are interrelated, then we can see that to protect others is to protect ourselves, and to protect ourselves is to protect others. Sharon Salzberg

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We can always begin again. Sharon Salzberg

Always Begin Again

Once in a while, you have to let your mind just go. Sharon Salzberg

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