Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the world.

Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.