Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.

Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.