Top 200 Sharon Salzberg Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

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2. “Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

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3. “Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference – in our own lives and those of others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

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4. “Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.”

— Sharon Salzberg

5. “You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.”

— Sharon Salzberg

6. “Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.”

— Sharon Salzberg

7. “The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”

— Sharon Salzberg

8. “Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.”

— Sharon Salzberg

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9. “Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.”

— Sharon Salzberg

10. “To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

11. “In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.”

— Sharon Salzberg

12. “Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.”

— Sharon Salzberg

13. “If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.”

— Sharon Salzberg

14. “In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.”

— Sharon Salzberg

15. “Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”

— Sharon Salzberg

16. “Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we’re heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.”

— Sharon Salzberg

17. “Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response.”

— Sharon Salzberg

18. “Albert Einstein goes, “The problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”

— Sharon Salzberg

19. “Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.”

— Sharon Salzberg

20. “Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us – in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.”

— Sharon Salzberg

21. “When you’re wide open, the world is a good place.”

— Sharon Salzberg

22. “Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.”

— Sharon Salzberg

23. “Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

24. “Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.”

— Sharon Salzberg

25. “We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.”

— Sharon Salzberg

26. “Patience doesn’t mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that’s unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.”

— Sharon Salzberg

27. “True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.”

— Sharon Salzberg

28. “When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.”

— Sharon Salzberg

29. “In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.”

— Sharon Salzberg

30. “If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

31. “We can learn the art of fierce compassion – redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking – while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.”

— Sharon Salzberg

32. “Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

33. “Equanimity’s strength derives from a combination of understanding and trust. It is based on understanding that the conflict and frustration we feel when we can’t control the world doesn’t come from our inability to do so but rather from the fact that we are trying to control the uncontrollable.”

— Sharon Salzberg

34. “We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

35. “From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life – if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.”

— Sharon Salzberg

36. “We can’t control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what’s happening. That awareness can be our refuge.”

— Sharon Salzberg

37. “Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.”

— Sharon Salzberg

38. “Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn’t sentimental. It doesn’t have to be pretty, yet it doesn’t deny pain.”

— Sharon Salzberg

39. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Sharon Salzberg

40. “As we look around, it’s very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It’s not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don’t know how to work with them.”

— Sharon Salzberg

41. “We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

42. “Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.”

— Sharon Salzberg

43. “Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.”

— Sharon Salzberg

44. “Sometimes people don’t trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won’t stand up for other people.”

— Sharon Salzberg

45. “Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.”

— Sharon Salzberg

46. “What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.”

— Sharon Salzberg

47. “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”

— Sharon Salzberg

48. “Let the breath lead the way.”

— Sharon Salzberg

49. “Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.”

— Sharon Salzberg

50. “As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.”

— Sharon Salzberg