Quotes About Sympathetic Joy

#1. Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Sharon Salzberg

#6. The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy

Sharon Salzberg

#7. The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. Pretty soon you're not going to be able to understand me. I'll be so smart that you'll have no idea I'm insulting you. I chuck my empty box at her. I miss again.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#11. Then those silver eyes dimmed, like the sun vanishing behind a cloud, and he crumpled to the ground
- Iron Daughter

Julie Kagawa

#12. With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.

Auliq Ice

#13. The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#14. When he throws one in from half court and raises his arms triumphantly, spectators' emotions rise in sympathetic gasps of joy; childhood revisited for a brief moment

Brian Triptow

#15. Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

Tariq Ramadan

#16. To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears.

Charlotte Bronte

#18. Understanding of our fellow human beings ... becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Albert Einstein

#19. I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Nikki Giovanni