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… - Sharon Salzberg

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

This vision is always available to us; it doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, or a week, or ten thousand years — we turn on the light and it is illumined. Once we contact our capacity for love and happiness — the good — the light has been turned on. Practicing the brahma-viharas is a way of turning on the light and then tending it. It is a process of deep spiritual transformation.

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.