Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time.

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

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.