When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. - Sharon Salzberg

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.