If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost... →
Tara Brach
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents... →
There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth... →
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and... →
Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
Eddie Bracken
In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The... →
Ray Bradbury
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for... →
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.