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

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.

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.

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.

He does it with a better grace but I do it more natural.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

Modeling was successful for me. I didn't have to wait tables or anything like that, so that was nice. And I got to see the entire world.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums.