With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a 'thing' to let go of, we're in trouble. We need to change our view of reality, not attack a nonexistent entity.

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.

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

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.