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 storie… - Sharon Salzberg

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.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make
friends with the quietness of our sensations.

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.