Looking for the benefits of metta meditation

Can someone help me locate the passage(s) where the Buddha lists the benefits of metta meditation? Thanks. :pray:

PS: I found this totally secular article on Healthline while I was looking with Google, called 5 Benefits of Metta Meditation and How to Do It. :smile:

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Mendicants, you can expect eleven benefits when the heartā€™s release by love has been cultivated, developed, and practiced, made a vehicle and a basis, kept up, consolidated, and properly implemented. What eleven?

You sleep at ease. You wake happily. You donā€™t have bad dreams. Humans love you. Non-humans love you. Deities protect you. You canā€™t be harmed by fire, poison, or blade. Your mind quickly enters immersion. Your face is clear and bright. You donā€™t feel lost when you die. If you donā€™t penetrate any higher, youā€™ll be reborn in a Brahmā realm.

AN 11.15

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That was fast! Many thanks.

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Certainly worthy of recollection :pray:

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