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

- 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…

- Sharon Salzberg

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

- 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

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

- 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…

- Sharon Salzberg

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

- Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

- Sharon Salzberg

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

- Sharon Salzberg