You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.

If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do this. You can have a gratitude buddy, someone with whom, at the end of the day, you exchange messages listing these three things you are grateful for. Also, you can journal it or reflect on it silently.

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

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

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.

Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.