“Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself. You may not be perfect, but you are all you’ve got to work with. The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English
"So that is why I found myself waiting at a station in a city whose name I could hardly pronounce, and where I did not speak a word of the local language, waiting for someone I would not recognise to take me somewhere I did not know." - from 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else' by C.D. Rose
Our habitual tendency is to look past all the good things others have done for us and to instead focus on and replay every real or imagined slight. Finding time in your life to actively cultivate gratefulness is an important part of the practice of loving-kindness.
Gratefulness softens your heart and helps reduce your anger and gratefulness seeds the soil to allow loving kindness to grow naturally into joy and peace.
“Loving friendliness motivates you to behave kindly to all beings at all times and to speak gently in their presence and their absence”
― Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
#Meditation sharpens your #concentraiton and your thinking power. Then piece by piece, your own #subconscious motives and mechanics become clear to you. Your #intuition sharpens. The precision of your #thought increases, and gradually you come to a direct #knowledge of things as they reaally are, without #prejudice and without #illusion .
“Patience is the key. Patience. If you learn nothing else from #meditation, you will learn #patience. Patience is essential for any profound change.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, #Mindfulness in Plain English