Sharon Salzberg

“Lovingkindness is the strong wish for the welfare and happiness of all beings.”

“You can't fail at meditation. The whole point is the willingness to begin again.”

“Real love is the moment when love itself is the practice.”

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.”

“To see beings as wholly beautiful, even in their wounds, is the heart of metta.”

“Forgiveness is not weak. It demands courage and integrity.”

“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river.”

“The flow is happening. Faith is being able to enter into it.”

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”

“What we choose to focus on, what we attend to, becomes the texture of our lives.”

“Anger has the energy of empowerment. Lovingkindness has the energy of relationship.”

“You don't have to deserve love. Love is a basic human birthright.”

“Practicing meditation is the willingness, again and again, to begin.”

“True love is not a battle. It is a homecoming.”

“The healing of suffering is the cessation of resistance to it.”

“The Pali word metta means friendship — the willingness to be a friend to all of life.”

“Equanimity is not indifference. It is the spacious balance of love that wants beings to be happy and is not destroyed when they are not.”

“Every moment is a doorway.”