Become a witness to your thoughts.

In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness.

Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.

If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong and bring as compassionate and honest attention to it as possible. Honor that this is part of being human, but it's important to know when it's getting in the way.

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.

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.