The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
Sharon SalzbergWe learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Sharon SalzbergThe mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
Sharon SalzbergThe first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.
Sharon Salzberg