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

Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

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

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.

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response