Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.

We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.

Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

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.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.