The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.
Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering and to simply… - Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering and to simply…
- Sharon Salzberg
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention. - Sharon Salzberg
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in ch… - Sharon Salzberg
We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in ch…
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. - Sharon Salzberg
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion. - Sharon Salzberg
Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets di… - Sharon Salzberg
The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets di…
Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it. - Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. - Sharon Salzberg
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it. - Sharon Salzberg
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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