Compassion

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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 124 – Conflict and Reconciliation

Conflict really starts in the heart with our attachments and our needs and our desires. We need to pause for a moment and reflect on

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 123 – Breathe Love In, Breathe Love Out Meditation

Take whatever gifts of understanding your body and heart and spirit offer, and the quieting of your mind and tending of your heart and breath,

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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 122 – Suffering Is Not the End of the Story

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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 121 – Reflect on Gratitude

Gratitude is a gracious acknowledgment of all that sustains us, a bow to our blessings, great and small. Gratitude is the confidence in life itself.

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With each breath in, fill your body and being with lovingkindness for yourself. With each breath out, sense you are sending love out to the

Heart Wisdom – Ep. 120 – Seeding Goodness

Don’t think that the seeds that you plant won’t make a difference. With equanimity, with a peaceful heart and a vast mind, you water the

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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 116 – Equanimity and the Heart of Compassion

Equanimity is often taught as a complement to the practices of lovingkindness and compassion because it’s understood in Buddhist psychology that if we only practice…

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What is the peaceful heart? What keeps us from it? The near-enemy, the quality that masquerades as equanimity, is indifference. Indifference is a not-caring, it’s…

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