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Become a witness to your thoughts.
When we open to love, we become love.
Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
Meditation can change the flavor of the season.
Take moments to savor what is beautiful and good.
I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.
I don't believe I'm bad, and I do believe I'm good.
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.
Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness
Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.
To open in a loving way is to let awareness notice that tightening.
Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.
Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.
We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist.
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.
What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?
If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.
Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.
If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.
Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.
There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.
Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them
The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.