Sharon Salzberg Quotes

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.

Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.