The Ego Seeks To Divide And Separate.

It Is Only When We Begin To Relax With Ourselves That Meditation Becomes A Transformative Process. Only When We Relate With Ourselves Without Moralizing, Without Harshness, Without Deception, Can We Let Go Of Harmful Patterns. Without Maitri (metta), Renunciation Of Old Habits Becomes Abusive. This Is An Important Point.

Only In An Open, Nonjudgmental Space Can We Acknowledge What We Are Feeling. Only In An Open Space Where We're Not All Caught Up In Our Own Version Of Reality Can We See And Hear And Feel Who Others Really Are, Which Allows Us To Be With Them And Communicate With Them Properly.

We Tend To Forget That We Are Part Of The Natural Scheme Of Things.

Once You Create A Self-justifying Storyline, Your Emotional Entrapment Within It Quadruples.

As Our Kindness For Ourselves Grows, So Does Our Kindness For Other People.