Sharon Salzberg Quotes

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Happiness is an inside job.

This idea of bringing awareness to our lives seems like a good idea, right? We'll gain a productive, enjoyable, reflective life and be able to extend compassion, empathy, and joy to others. That seems like a pretty good deal.

It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And that can be just a few minutes sitting on your porch feeling the breeze against your face. That can be a few moments spent in meditation or in prayer or remembering three things you're grateful for.

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

Life is all about the spirit.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

Stay in your heart.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.