What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel secure and loved, we fixate our attention on that person and what's wrong with them. We also fixate on what's wrong with us. Instead, we can bring forward two wings of awareness: the wing of mindfulness (noticing what's going on inside us) and the wing of kindness (compassion to what's going on inside us).

With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.

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

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.