in your brain, loving-kindness mobilizes prefrontal language and intention networks as well as limbic emotion and reward networks. - Rick Hanson

staying with a negative experience past the point that’s useful is like running laps in Hell: You dig the track a little deeper in your brain each time you go around it.

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.

staying with a negative experience past the point that’s useful is like running laps in Hell: You dig the track a little deeper in your brain each time