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Letting Go of Repetitive Thoughts

Compassion is Our Nature

Through meditation we gradually open the boundaries of consciousness to compassion for all beings, as if they were part of our family. We learn that...

The Wisdom of Insecurity

We can plan, we can care for, tend and respond. But we cannot control. Instead we take a breath, and open to what is unfolding,...

Mindfulness and Compassion

Compassion is most real in the particulars, in our response to the immediacy of this moment. Every conscious act contributes to the healing of the...

Navigating Rough Waters

Living our highest intentions can happen in great ways or in what may seem small—yet critical—ways of refusing to be conquered by the difficulties that...

Mindfulness of Feelings

Feelings are ever-present. They are a mysterious and rich dimension of our human life. But without mindfulness of them we can react automatically, habitually clinging...

Courage of the Heart

Very often what nourishes our spirit most is what brings us face to face with our greatest limitations and difficulties. Every life has periods and...

Awakening Self-Compassion

Hold yourself as a mother holds her beloved child. —Buddha We are so quick to judge one another. And just as we are hard on...

Natural Joy

When love meets pain it becomes compassion. When love meets happiness, it becomes joy. Joy is an expression of the awakened heart, a quality of...

The Sacred Pause

Because experience happens so quickly, habitual responses can come out of our mouth before we know it. It helps to train ourselves to pause before...

Inattention and Delusion

With delusion we live our lives on automatic pilot. We walk down the street and return home without registering where we are and what is...

Blessings for the New Year

Dear ones, The year ends and we begin a new circuit around our own beautiful sun star, twirling amidst the galaxies. Take a breath, quiet...