Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.

Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

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