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

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.

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

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.

Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die... #AHOLE

I tried to gather all the pieces… I picked each one and fixed them so perfectly. No one could say that I was broken once, unless they see my hands, lacerated by the splinters of my heart.

Observing is the basis of wisdom.

It is through prayer that we destroy the kingdom of Darkness and enforce the judgment written that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail - Prayer Moves God, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

Our need to control eventually works against us b/c we start to repress what we truly feel, need and want. God is in control so trust in that more than yourself!

The list below begins to illustrate how different personalities can be assigned to different vocal qualities . . .•

Social ties are the cheapest medicine we have.

Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.