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

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

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.