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

I think it's possible to have experiences of love without attachment, but I think part of our conditioning is to grasp at times, especially when there are unmet needs. It's part of our nervous system to hold on to where we think those needs will be met.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

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.

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.