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"You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!"
"The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own."
"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who follow the popular majority, and those who possess good sense. In other words, you can either let the crowd steer you right over a cliff, or you can stop to peer beyond the brink and see how a fall will likely end in tragedy."
"A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way."
"When we stay locked up in the spectrum of unsolved life stories and keep hiding in an arcane prism, life remains a mystery behind perpetual tensions and a journey in a world beyond appearances. ['Une femme peut en cacher une autre']"
"Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant."
"When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes."
"It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else."
"It is only when the mirror has not spoken to Chimpanzee in a plain language that it thinks it looks more better than the Gorilla."
Explore more quotes by Sharon Salzberg
"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."
"Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it."
"I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all."
"When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently."
"Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don't want to believe it."
"The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people. Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others."
"Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues."
"When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way."
"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."
"Mindfulness won't ensure you'll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won't enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns."
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