When you’re wide open, the world is a good place.
—Sharon Salzberg
Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk, and act in accord with what we know to be true.
—Sharon Salzberg
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference—in our own lives and those of others.
—Sharon Salzberg
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.
—Sharon Salzberg
There’s no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live them in ignorance. And this is everything.
—Sharon Salzberg
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we.
—Sharon Salzberg
Topics: Mistakes
In any experience, even a painful one, we can find the end of suffering right in the heart of the moment.
—Sharon Salzberg
In order to deepen our faith, we have to be able to try things out, to wonder, to doubt. In fact, faith is strengthened by doubt when doubt is a sincere, critical questioning combined with deep trust in our own right and ability to discern the truth.
—Sharon Salzberg
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
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope; a slight change, and all patterns and configurations alter.
—Sharon Salzberg
Life can and does turn on a dime. One little rotation of the wheel of fortune, and we’re no longer feeling so on top of life and impervious to change.
—Sharon Salzberg
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Douglas Adams British Author
- Dennis Genpo Merzel American Buddhist Monk
- Lama Surya Das American Buddhist Scholar
- Cynthia Ozick American Novelist, Essayist
- Allen Ginsberg American Poet
- Pema Chodron American Buddhist Nun
- Robert Thurman American Buddhist Scholar
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu American Buddhist Monk
- Norman Cousins American Journalist
- Larry King American TV Personality
Leave a Reply