Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting.

With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me." Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them