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About Sharon Salzberg
author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice
Sharon Salzberg is an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice in the West. She co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, in 1974 with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her work centers on vipassanā, or insight, and mettā, or loving-kindness, and she has led meditation retreats around the world for several decades. She is known for writing and teaching in that tradition, with an emphasis on practice and attention to the mind.
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- “We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.”Sharon Salzberg
- “Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain…”Sharon Salzberg
- “To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.”Sharon Salzberg
- “Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.”Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness: more sayings
- “It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.”Gyalwa Dokhampa
- “. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn wh…”Swami Satchidananda
- “Within your ego mind there is a prison cell. Its bars are made of resentment and the door is hung on the hing…”Darren Main
More Meditation quotes
- “Nothing is born, nothing dies.”Antoine Lavoisier
- “It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop…”Viktor E. Frankl
- “Reality is non-directional, layered, and potential- all things at once and non-real in the sense that real is…”Laren Grey Umphlett