Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
constricting trance to a more awake, spacious presence that can eventually include all of life. It is from this mindful awareness that you will discover fresh, creative, and more compassionate responses to life’s challenges.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
that’s what I learned: take an interest in your pain and your fear. Move closer, lean in, get curious; even for a moment experience the feelings beyond labels, beyond being good or bad. Welcome them. Invite them. Do anything that helps melt the resistance. Then the next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you m
... See morePema Chodron • Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
The ability to avoid being entrapped by one another’s mind is one of the great gifts we can offer each other. With this compassionate and spacious awareness, and the listening it makes possible, we can offer those we are with a standing invitation to come out from wherever they are caught, if they are ready and wish to do so.
Ram Dass • How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service
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