Author: Sharon Salzberg

Quotes

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

- Sharon Salzberg

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

- Sharon Salzberg

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

- Sharon Salzberg

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

- Sharon Salzberg

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

- Sharon Salzberg

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

- Sharon Salzberg

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