Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

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.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.

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

Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.