If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.

We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.

Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.

I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.