Faith Quotes

“To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“In one of the verses of Lal Ded, or Lalla, a fourteenth-century mystic from Kashmir, Lalla says: “At the end of a crazy-moon night the love of God rose. I said “It’s me, Lalla.”
“It’s me, Lalla,” becomes “It’s me…whoever you are,” proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential. No one can take that leap for us; and no one has to. This is our journey of faith.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“With bright faith we act on our potential to transform our suffering and live in a different way.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“language that felt linked to my experience. In the sixties, the physicist John Stewart Bell theorized that particles that were once connected will, when separated, behave as if still connected, regardless of the distance between them. Some years later a French physicist, Alain Aspect, conducted experiments offering physical proof of Bell’s theorem.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“One of the meanings of “saddha,” the word for faith in Pali, is hospitality. Faith is about opening up and making room for even the most painful experiences, the ones where we “take apart the chord” of our suffering to find notes of horror, desolation, and piercing fear. If I could be willing to make room for my aching numbness, and the river of grief it covered, allowing it, even trusting it, I would be acting in faith. Perhaps this is how suffering leads to faith. In times of great struggle, when there is nothing else to rely on and nowhere else to go, maybe it is the return to the moment that is the act of faith. From that point, openness to possibility can arise, willingness to see what will happen, patience, endeavor, strength, and courage. Moment by moment, we can find our way through.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“I had wanted my pain to disappear. I didn’t want to feel the constriction of fear in my throat, the sadness of a child all alone in the world. But the transformation I was seeking wasn’t to be found in what happened to the pain; it would be found in what happened within me in relationship to it.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“If we hold beliefs skillfully, we will not get entangled in them, but will see them as the mental constructs they are. When we claim our right to question everything, including our beliefs, we can unhook from our dependence on what is familiar and let in the heartfelt, open, fresh quality of faith.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“Like a subliminal message being played under the predominant music, a sense of possibility, no matter how faint, drives a wedge between the suffering we may wake up with each day and the hopelessness that can try to move in with us on a permanent basis. It inspires us to envision a better life for ourselves. It is this glimmer of possibility that is the beginning of faith.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“WHATEVER TAKES US to our edge, to our outer limits, leads us to the heart of life’s mystery, and there we find faith.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience