Etta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing Etta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves. We can open to everything with the healing force of love. When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains, we feel neither betrayed by pain nor overcome by it, and thus we can contact that which is undamaged within us regardless of the situation. Etta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness