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.

My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

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

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.

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

We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist.