Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.