Practicing mindfulness, we remember times where we have not been mindful of our own actions and we have harmed others. We remember what it feels like to suffer from our thoughts or emotions. For most of us, we have suffered very recently if we are truly be honest with ourselves. Rather than judge based on the surface, we compassionately look a little deeper. We touch the other person’s pain, joy, sorrow, love, or whatever they may be experiencing.

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-Henry Ford

“The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept.”
-Thomas Merton

“Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?”
-Rumi

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-Stephen King

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”

-Michelangelo

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

-Abraham Lincoln

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Practicing mindfulness, we bring our loving-kindness practice into our daily lives. When we have encounters with others, we listen mindfully and compassionately. When we feel unpleasant emotions toward somebody we try to be mindful of their struggles and suffering. When somebody is happy, we practice sympathetic joy. It is with these practices that we can turn our metta practice into selflessness in our daily lives.

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“Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;

that where there is hatred, I may bring love;

that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;

that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;

that where there is error, I may bring truth;

that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;

that where there is despair, I may bring hope;

that where there are shadows, I may bring light;

that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;

to understand, than to be understood;

to love, than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.

Amen.”

-St. Francis of Assissi

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