If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

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

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.