When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting.

Meditation can change the flavor of the season.

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

Take moments to savor what is beautiful and good.

I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.