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.
Weitere Zitate von Sharon Salzberg
Zum Autor"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."
"In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away."
"To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better."
"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."
"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."
"Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point."