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.

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

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

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.