In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

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

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

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