As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.

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

If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.

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

If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

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