Be courageous and take a moment to see for yourself the lovable qualities of those you dislike.

My practice has taught me that I don't always need to solve every feeling, but instead I can be a friend to myself until it passes. How are you being a friend to yourself?

Give yourself permission to be a verb rather than a noun and live in alignment with change. Give your family and friends permission to be different too. Maybe what someone said last year or last week or last hour has changed

We can learn from everything and everyone. Light yourself up. This world is a gift.

Yesterday, I found a new animal trail between some trees and decided to see where it went.

Let's not waste the opportunity to let go of worries and fears and turn with a curious and open mind towards gratitude for what we do have and what we can give.

What are you devoted to? Action in alignment with purpose becomes devotion and re-enchants the world.

Sometimes when things become overwhelming or uncertain, the only way forward is to love yourself even if (especially if) you have found a fungus patch in your own heart.

The hops vine must be growing an inch or two a day, spiraling around in its upward trajectory.

It might be that no one will be able to tell what you have done with your practice but the results will be felt in a sense of ease and resilience.

Meditation is the practice of being intimately present in any moment. And that the practice of awakening can and does happen anywhere and anytime rather than being limited to a meditation hall or yoga mat.

Equanimity and the other heart qualities of lovingkindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy are all about our relationship to ourselves, others and our experience.

Your whole life is a creative project where you make something new and valuable everyday from necessity, blunders, and optimism.

It is time to prepare for spring and for the world to shift.

I recommend the practice of leading with generosity to everyone that you meet. Remember that generosity doesn't have to be a thing, it could be a kind word, a helping hand, or even giving someone the benefit of the doubt.

To take refuge is to remember to act in your own highest good so that you can then lift the people around you up too. To take refuge is to remember that you are held in this world, not separate.

Let yourself make your life an experiment. Then see what happens next.

Faith and patience can carry us through by reminding us that life itself moves in cycles.