This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature.

Become a witness to your thoughts.

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.