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

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.

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.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

We love because we love.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

I don't really think of myself as quirky; I have sort of an unusual sense of humor.

The House GOP continues to fail to address the real & serious issues thatthousands of families face each day.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.