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What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.
Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.
I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.
We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.
Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.
We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.
In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.
People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
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.
I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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
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.
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.
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.
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.