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.
Weitere Zitate von Sharon Salzberg
Zum Autor"From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters."
"What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives."
"Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness."
"How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships."
"Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle."
"Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point."