We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
~Mother Teresa
Probably the simplest, if not altogether the easiest, way to connect with those around us and to offer metta is through our smiles. I have often found that a smile can immediately evaporate tension when one enters a room or crowded train full of strangers. But, in all honesty, it seems to take a little extra work and considerable practice to generate a real smile in more intimate settings. Nonetheless, a smile cuts through the entanglements of discourse and gets right to the heart of the matter so it seems to me that smiling practice its well worth the effort.
Cattāri Brahmavihārā 
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