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“If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of loving kindness and self-compassion, we can learn to love our flawed and imperfect selves. And in those moments of vulnerability, we open our hearts to connect with each other, as well. We are not perfect, but we are enough.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Causing harm is never just a one-way street.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Many strong emotions are actually intricate tapestries woven of various strands.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can’t control, we maintain our energy for the quest.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being—someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known—even by ourselves.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection