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

A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have want and fear around being in relationship with each other.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.