Feel the feelings and drop the story.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.