To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.

So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.

At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love.