"To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom."
- Sharon Salzberg
"Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone."
"The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own."
"While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now."
"Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity."
"Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice."
"Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us."
"We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again"
"Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts."
"The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out f..."