Sharon Salzberg - Quodid

About

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Sharon Salzberg (born August 5, 1952) is an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her emphasis is on vipassanā (insight) and mettā (loving-kindness) methods, and she has been leading meditation retreats around the world for several decades.

Quotes from Sharon Salzberg

The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, “At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.”

—Sharon Salzberg

self-hatred thoughts will planning

In order to live with integrity, we must stop fragmenting and compartmentalizing our lives. Telling lies at work and then expecting great truths in meditation is nonsensical.

—Sharon Salzberg

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

—Sharon Salzberg in The Force of Kindness

Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

—Sharon Salzberg

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

—Sharon Salzberg

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

—Sharon Salzberg

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

—Sharon Salzberg

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

—Sharon Salzberg

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

—Sharon Salzberg

Books

Sharon Salzberg has the following books quoted on Quodid:

The Force of Kindness