Sharon Salzberg Quotes

When we stop thinking about ourselves, when we stop being so devoted to 'me,' we can start behaving in a way that actually benefits others!

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Compassion has to become a discipline. It's something that you do. It's no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not, you've just got to do it. Just like it's no good agreeing that it's possible to float, you just have to get into the pool and then you learn that it's possible.

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.