It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.

Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.