Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Sharon Salzberg
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.”
“The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.”
“We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.”
“Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.”
“Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.”
“When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.”
“Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.”
“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love”
“If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.”
“If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.”
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