Awakening Loving-Kindness

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Someone who is very angry also has a lot of energy; that energy is what’s so juicy about him or her. That’s the reason people love that person.

The moment when you label your thoughts “thinking” is probably the key place in the technique where you cultivate gentleness, sympathy, and loving-kindness.

the instruction is that there is only twenty-five percent awareness on the out-breath, which is really very little.

It does take coming to know your anger, coming to know your self-deprecation, coming to know your craving and wanting, coming to know your boredom, and making friends with those things.

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material.

The trick about nowness is that you can let go and open up again to that space. You can do that at any moment, always.

being as precise as you can and simultaneously as kind as you can, the ability to let go seems to happen to you.

The meditation technique itself cultivates precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go—qualities that are innate within us.