If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another person to satisfy my need, I'm actually going right to where the needs come from and able to bring a real healing.

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

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.