Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.