Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature. - Sharon Salzberg

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

In one of the verses of Lal Ded, or Lalla, a fourteenth-century mystic from Kashmir, Lalla says: “At the end of a crazy-moon night the love of God rose. I said “It’s me, Lalla.”
“It’s me, Lalla,” becomes “It’s me…whoever you are,” proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential. No one can take that leap for us; and no one has to. This is our journey of faith.

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