“The formal practice of loving-kindness or maitri has seven stages. We begin by engendering loving-kindness for ourselves and then expand it at… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield… — Phillip Moffitt Copy Share Image
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
May we ever watch over one another, assisting in times of need. Let us not be critical and judgmental, but let us… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The Buddha didn’t set out to found a religion or to convert people to a belief – he simply taught a system… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have recourse trustfully to Gods loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir.… — David A. Cooper Copy Share Image
A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Kindness is the only love I know. Kindness is the only love there is.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Practice loving-kindness and compassion by sending warmth, friendliness, and goodwill to everyone with whom you come in contact.” — Carmel Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.” — Heather Wolf Copy Share Image
“Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes all we need to soothe our soul and ease our burdens is the loving hand of a friend gently touching our… — Mimi Novic Copy Share Image
“Be assured by My loving-kindness that as others are blessed by these words, your cup of joy will overflow in the same… — Gabrielle Bossis Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want my level of self-love to limit how much I can love my children or my husband. Why? Because loving… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we… — Alice Nicholls Copy Share Image
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
If you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
