To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

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

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

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

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

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

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want to play the violin, but I wanted to sing and play the guitar.

True power is given to the vulnerable.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

My favorite muscle to train is TRICEPS! Always has been my stongest muscle group as well.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.