L'amour.

“When you are suffering, work with that suffering. Suffering doesn’t mean that the meditation practice is not working. It means that it is. No matter how long you practice suffering still hurts. When you practice empathy, other people’s suffering also hurts. Mindfulness gives you skills for sticking with the painful parts of life. It doesn’t eliminate them.”

“One of the greatest blocks of loving kindness is our own sense of unworthiness. If we leave ourselves out of the circle of love and compassion, we have misunderstood.”

“When you love someone you want to take care of that person as you would take care of yourself. That is the relationship each of us can have with the Earth.”