ON BEING COLUMN – The Conscious Effort Real Love Requires

The Conscious Effort Real Love Requires

Monthly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Blog
Published Feb 13th, 2017

The love we can cultivate for ourselves, which can unfurl as we practice challenging our habits, judgments, and assumptions (our stories, in other words), can open up a more expansive capacity for more love to come in, and to be sent out. We feel more whole, and less fragmented. We see that we are worthy of happiness, and that others are, too. And believe it or not, we can still be authors, but through the lens of love, we may find that the new stories we come up with look a lot different.

Sharon Salzberg

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