When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.

No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care.

With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to see clearly what's happening in the body, to regard those feelings and sensations with kindness and acceptance, and to notice how they come and go.

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

Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.