Every human being has three basic needs — safety, satisfaction, and connection — that are grounded in our ancient evolutionary history. - Rick Hanson

The key to growing any psychological resource, including compassion, is to have repeated experiences of it that get turned into lasting changes in neural structure or function.

you can manage your mind in three primary ways: let be, let go, let in.

most of the shaping of your mind remains forever unconscious. This is called implicit memory, and it includes your expectations, models of relationships, emotional tendencies, and general outlook. Implicit memory establishes the interior landscape of your mind — what it feels like to be you — based on the slowly accumulating residues of lived experience.