Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.

What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

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

Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.

As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about.