Sharon Salzberg

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Ask yourself, 'who is the one suffering from this anger? The person who has harmed me has gone on to live their life (or perhaps has died), while I am the one sitting here feeling the persecution, burning and constriction of anger. Out of compassion for myself, to ease my own heart, may I let go.

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn__ go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

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.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.