Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.
Sharon SalzbergThe art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we canโt bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
Sharon SalzbergDoing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.
Sharon SalzbergLoving ourselves opens us to truly knowing ourselves as part of the matrix of existence, inextricably connected to the boundlessness of life... when we see that we are far bigger than the person that is delineated by family or cultural expectations, we realize we are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
Sharon Salzberg