The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

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.

Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.

To enlighten your life, see beauty.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.

I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them.

Oh, I am in love with life!

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.