Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves. We can open to everything with the healing force of love. When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains, we feel neither betrayed by pain or overcome by it, and thus we can contact that which is undamaged within us regardless of the situation. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be.

There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.