When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

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.

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

Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.

When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.

I don't believe I'm bad, and I do believe I'm good.

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature.