My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.