Awakening Loving-Kindness

arrogance is just a cover-up for really feeling that you’re the worst horse, and always trying to prove otherwise.

the emotions that we have right now, the negativity and the positivity, are what we actually need.

there’s a kind of basic misunderstanding that we should try to be better than we already are, that we should try to improve ourselves, that we should try to get away from painful things, and that if we could just learn how to get away from the painful things, then we would be happy.

So he encouraged me by saying that as long as you have these kinds of doubts, your practice will be good.

The ground of loving-kindness is this sense of satisfaction with who we are and what we have.

The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

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