Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

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

We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are.

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

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.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.