Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

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.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.