“Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.”
"The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out."
- Sharon Salzberg
Compassion
"Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom."
- Sharon Salzberg
Hope
"Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others."
- Sharon Salzberg
Resilience
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
- Sharon Salzberg
Self-esteem
"An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain."
- Sharon Salzberg
Faith
"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else."
- George Saunders
Meditation
"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
- Alan Watts
Meditation
"The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth."
- Alan Wilson Watts
Meditation
"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'When He opens for you a way of getting to know Him, do not mind if the quantity of your actions lessen in its presence.'"
- Al Hikam of Ibn Ata Allah
Meditation
"When meditation is mastered, The mind is unwavering like the Flame of a lamp in a windless place. In the still mind, In the depths of meditation, The Self reveals itself. Beholding the Self By means of the Self, An aspirant knows the Joy and peace of complete fulfillment. Having attained that Abiding joy beyond the senses, Revealed in the stilled mind, He never swerves from the eternal truth."
- Bhagavad Gita
Meditation