As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

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

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

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