Take moments to savor what is beautiful and good.

I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

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

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

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

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

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.