In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.