Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine
Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.