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

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.

I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.

We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist.