Its never too late to take a moment to look.

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

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

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

I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.

Because the development of inner calm and energy happens completely within and isn't dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful - and a huge relief.