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Sharon Salzberg

出生: August 5, 1952 – New York City, New York, USA

Sharon Salzberg is a leading meditation teacher and New York Times bestselling author who helped introduce mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture. Co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, she has written thirteen books, including "Lovingkindness" and "Real Happiness," and her podcast "The Metta Hour" has millions of downloads.

传记与作者历程

Sharon Salzberg, born in 1952 in New York City, rose from an early life marked by profound personal loss to become one of the preeminent voices in mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation in the West. After her parents’ divorce and her mother's death when she was nine, she lived with various relatives, navigating a childhood filled with uncertainty and change. Despite these hardships, Salzberg graduated from George Washington High School at sixteen and went on to earn her degree with highest honors from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972, where a course in Asian philosophy introduced her to Buddhism and set her on a transformative path.

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名言

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
-Lovingkindness
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It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view
-Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
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All beings want to be happy
-Sharon Salzberg Quotes on Lovingkindness, Meditation, & More
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The difference between misery and happiness is what we do with our attention
-Sharon Salzberg Quotes on Lovingkindness, Meditation, & More
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If you have to let go of distractions and begin again thousands of times, fine. That’s not a roadblock to the practice—that is the practice. That’s life: starting over, one breath at a time
-Lion’s Roar: The Best of Sharon Salzberg
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Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don’t have enough of, or the right kind of. It’s an ongoing process
-Lion’s Roar: The Best of Sharon Salzberg
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope; a slight change, and all patterns and configurations alter
-Lion’s Roar: The Best of Sharon Salzberg
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The gift of attention itself is like a gift of love … It’s so rare to be quite fully present, and yet that sense of things is like a gift of love
-Sharon Salzberg Quotes on Lovingkindness, Meditation, & More
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There’s a deep knowing that the construct we live under of ‘self and other’ and ‘us and them’ is just a construct—and we might be able to utilize it, but we needn’t be imprisoned in it
-Sharon Salzberg Quotes on Lovingkindness, Meditation, & More
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When you’re wide open, the world is a good place
-Lion’s Roar: The Best of Sharon Salzberg

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"Sharon Salzberg is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts"

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"Sharon Salzberg helped to change America’s spiritual landscape as a pioneer who brought Buddhism to the West"

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