As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.

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

Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.