The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred or by real love for oneself.
The difference between a life laced through with frustration and...
Tagged: Sharon Salzberg
Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.
Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness. : Sharon...
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our...
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we...
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.
Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at...
Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.
Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts...
The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.
The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come...
