"Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are."
- Sharon Salzberg
"As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American."
"In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vas..."
"Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money."
"In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go."
"Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives—the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experience..."
"Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace."
"Many strong emotions are actually intricate tapestries woven of various strands."
"Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it."
"It is a state of peace to be able to accept things as they are. This is to be at home in our own lives. We see that this universe is much too big to hold on to, but it is the perfect size for letting ..."