To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Loving ourselves opens us to truly knowing ourselves as part of the matrix of existence, inextricably connected to the boundlessness of life... when we see that we are far bigger than the person that is delineated by family or cultural expectations, we realize we are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.