Inspired New Year’s Intentions
Setting a long-term intention is like setting the compass of our heart. No matter how rough the storms, how difficult the terrain, even if we have to …
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You Are Not Alone
You are not alone. In fact, your life itself is only possible because of the thousands of generations before you, survivors who have carried the lamp …
Family Peace: A Reconciliation Meditation
When we allow our hearts to sense the pain and struggles of others, and how the suffering they carry causes pain to even themselves, a natural compass…
Letting Go of Repetitive Thoughts
Whatever we regularly think colors our experience—all day, every day. Once we start to watch these thoughts, we discover that 90% of them are reruns…
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 e…
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, where we are. This is …
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 who…
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…
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, hab…
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 si…
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 enligh…
