With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.
Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.
Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.
At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.
Its never too late to take a moment to look.
Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.
It’s interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they’re reduced to the barest terms of survival. That’s what provides tension in a lot of films.
My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I’m told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don’t vote.
To cherish others is to cherish ourselves. To cherish ourselves is to cherish others. And in that same way, we relate to the truth. If we support it, if we embrace it, if we uphold it, we will be embraced by it, we will be supported and upheld by it.
As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.
Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.