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.

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

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

Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.

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

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.