“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.” GratitudeBetrayal Book:Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta Source: Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
“When you look around at your community, you may feel some disappointment, worry or apprehension at the state of affairs. You see so much suffering - neighbors arguing, countries fighting, and children being neglected. Merely wishing for everyone to experience divine life on earth will not bring it about. However, we have the capacity to make this world heaven, behinning with how we interact in the world. This is called divinely living - to carry loving-friendliness in our hearts rather than ill will. Just as we can make hell on earth, meeta practice can make heaven on earth.” HeavenAngerBetrayalRageForgivenss Book:Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta Source: Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta