Sharon Salzberg Quotes

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

The only journey is the one within.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.