Quotes About Metta

#1. 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

#2. Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.

Jack Kornfield

#3. We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Sharon Salzberg

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

Tim Ward

#6. Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Sharon Salzberg

#9. Looking at people and communicating that they can be loved, and that they can love in return, is giving them a tremendous gift. It is also a gift to ourselves. We see that we are one with the fabric of life. This is the power of metta: to teach ourselves and our world this inherent loveliness.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. 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

#11. I'm just too sexy for my cat. If I wasn't as sexy for my cat, I probably wouldn't have came back. I'm so sexy, I came back.

Metta World Peace

#12. For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker.

Metta World Peace

#13. I'm not a player, I'm an alien ... My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else. Aliens only want to win championships.

Metta World Peace

#14. Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.

Metta World Peace

#15. With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

Sharon Salzberg

#16. You know, you've got fans and 99.9 percent of them are great-and .1 percent are jerks.

Metta World Peace

#17. With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Sharon Salzberg

#18. They better not put me in the All -Star Game. I won't shoot, but I'll dominate that easy game. I'll be playing hard defense. I'll be foulin'. I'll be flagrant fouling. Everyone will be like, 'What are you doing?'

Metta World Peace

#19. Like a caring mother
holding and guarding the life
of her only child,
so with a boundless heart
of lovingkindness,
hold yourself and all beings
as your beloved children.

Gautama Buddha

#20. Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us.
Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

Jack Kornfield

#21. Basketball was always something I felt I could dominate, something I could control.

Metta World Peace

#22. I'm a little obsessed with being competitive.

Metta World Peace

#23. Always have fun but stay hungry. Find that balance.

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#24. Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling.

Juanda Brahma Metta

#25. There's a lot of negativity in the world. I'm trying to be positive.

Metta World Peace

#26. Changing my name was meant to inspire and bring youth together all around the world,

Metta World Peace

#27. The Earth is moving right now.

Metta World Peace

#28. I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

Metta World Peace

#29. I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that would have been sick. But right now, China is way more adventurous for me.

Metta World Peace

#30. Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm trying to do. I'm trying to be positive. I'm a big fan of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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#31. Some things you do-or you're about to do-you can just be like, 'Hey, don't do that because it means trouble.' So I've got to back off.

Metta World Peace

#32. I definitely want to thank my doctor, Dr. Sandy, um, my psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot, thank you so much.

Metta World Peace

#33. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.

Sharon Salzberg