We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.
Sharon SalzbergWe are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
Sharon SalzbergIf you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
Sharon SalzbergAs I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.
Sharon Salzberg