Lovingkindness Sharon Quotes

#1. One thing I've discovered is that people in the military have a sense of purpose. They feel useful, and everything is laid out in front of them. What their job is, is very clear.

Jill Flint

#2. Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.

Nelly Kaplan

#3. Compassion is born out of lovingkindness.
It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again.

James T. McCay

#5. I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

Tony Benn

#6. To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

Paulina Porizkova

#8. I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

Paul Weyrich

#11. All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or lovingkindness.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

Gore Vidal

#13. I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Nicole Kidman

#14. The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

Sharon Salzberg

#15. As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

Sharon Salzberg

#16. I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.

Emeraude Toubia

#17. 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