For kindness to be more fully realized, it needs to be distinguished from being ineffectual or meek. It also needs to be infused with wisdom, supported by courage, and threaded with balance.
- Sharon Salzberg, the Kindness Handbook.

In the Kindness Handbook, Sharon Salzberg explores with insight and clarity how kindness for ourselves and others can be the quality we choose to steer our lives by.

An excerpt from the Kindness Handbook is found on www.spiritualityandpractice.com and focuses on an essential question we might ask ourselves is, ‘What do 1 really need right now, in this moment, to be happy?’

In 1976, Sharon established, together with Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield, the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, which now ranks as one of the most prominent and active meditation centers in the Western world.