Sharon Salzberg Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Unions, Yearning

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Dec 09, 2012

• To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Mean, Recognizing

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.92, Penguin

• The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Heart, Journey

  Sharon Salzberg (1999). “A Heart as Wide as the World”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

• The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Yoga, Heart, Thinking

• It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Faith, Heart, Offering

• If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Loneliness, Heart, World

• I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that I might find a hidden source of love and compassion. Like a homing instinct for freedom, my intuitive sense that this was possible was the faint, flickering, yet undeniable expression of faith.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Heart, Greatness

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.18, Penguin

• We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Wellspring

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.166, Shambhala Publications

• Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Compassion, Needs

  "Opening the Heart with Lovingkindness" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2011.

• The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Heart, Generosity

• Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Meditation, Mind

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