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 need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.