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.

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

To open in a loving way is to let awareness notice that tightening.

By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.

People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.