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

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

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