Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.

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.

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.

I’ve noticed that once you find the right one for you, the one of your dreams, everything in life becomes against you, even the weather

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative beats no narrative." - L. R. W. Lee

Running a business well means knowing when it's time to make profit.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white.