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"Know your limit and circle of influence, you are not called to meet the needs of everyone."
"Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from yourdesk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin."
"You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity."
"You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them."
"You can't do everything for everyone, not even for yourself. It's okay to ask for help when you need it."
"Kindness always works with the most important person - YOU. Be kind for you, not others."
"If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."
Explore more quotes by Sharon Salzberg
"With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be."
"When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy."
"The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known-even by ourselves."
"It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning."
"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."
"In one of the verses of Lal Ded, or Lalla, a fourteenth-century mystic from Kashmir, Lalla says: "At the end of a crazy-moon night the love of God rose. I said "It's me, Lalla."It's me, Lalla, becomes "It's me whoever you are, proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential. No one can take that leap for us; and no one has to. This is our journey of faith."
"The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud."
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