Our speech is one of the most important ways we can take into the world our lovingkindness

Our speech is one of the most important ways we can take into the world our lovingkindness, or that we develop in meditation .

We’ve said already that mindful speech should not only be honest, but should be meant kindly. One of the most effective means of being kind in our speech and of helping others is to express appreciation of them. This is an excellent practice.

We all tend to delete certain perceptions from our consciousness. When we have an enemy, then we’ll tend not to notice anything positive about that person; we just concentrate on what we don’t like.