Sharon Salzberg Quotes

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

You change your life by changing your heart.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

I'm passionate about transformation.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.