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

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

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.

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

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.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

Instinct ensures animals to have society. Reason ensures society to have animals

The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.