“To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.”

If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.

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

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.

Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.

When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.

If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap.

Hang in there darling. The rain is necessary for the flower to fully grow.

Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.

I’ll bring you flowers in the pouring rain.

You deflowered me. Still I blossomed.