I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

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.

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

I don't believe I'm bad, and I do believe I'm good.

Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

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