Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.

— Sharon Salzberg

Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.

— Sharon Salzberg

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

— Sharon Salzberg

Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another.

— Sharon Salzberg

Buddha first taught Etta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

— Sharon Salzberg

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

Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the relationship. What’s more, we’re encouraged to accept the impermanence of all things: the flower that blooms today will be gone tomorrow, the objects we possess will break or fade or lose their utility, our relationships will change, life will end.

— Sharon Salzberg

By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.

— Sharon Salzberg

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

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

— Sharon Salzberg