People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting.

Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.