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.

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me." Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.