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.
Weitere Zitate von Sharon Salzberg
Zum Autor"To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better."
"As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about."
"Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle."
"At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love."
"So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings."
"We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies."