Metta Quotes

• To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Flower, Loving Kindness, Lovingkindness

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Integrity, Different, Needs

  Sharon Salzberg (2002). “Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Animal, Cherish

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• When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Practice, Our Relationship

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Old Habits, Meditation

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• Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Integrity, Meditation, Mind

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.

  Sangharakshita

  Real, People, Littles

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• Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

  Tim Ward

  Crowds, Robes, Effects

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.207, Changemakers Books

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