title: Lovingkindness Meditation
author:  Sharon Salzberg 
description: Sharon Salzberg has been a student of Buddhism since 1971, and has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive awareness practice (vipassana or insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion (the Brahma Viharas). She is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and The Forest Refuge, a new center for long term meditation practice.
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  **From the Corner of his eye**
  
   _ **by**_
  
   **Dean Koontz**
  
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  Nobody understands quantum theory.
  
    
  
  _-Richard Feynman_
  
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  As I wrote this book, the singular and beautiful music of the late Israel
  Kamakawiwo'ole was always playing. I hope that the reader finds pleasure in my
  story equal to the joy and consolation that I found in the voice, the spirit,
  and the heart of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
  
  As I was finishing this book, Carol Bowers and her family spent a day here,
  under the auspices of the Dream Foundation. Carol, having read this book,
  you'll understand why your visit, coming when it did, reinforced what I
  believe about the uncanny interconnectedness of things and about the profound
  and mysterious meaning in all our lives.
  
  Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of
  time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source
  of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's
  passed, 