I often recommend a year of developing loving-kindness for oneself. Because of the shame and unworthiness we carry, loving ourselves becomes a particularly powerful practice. It doesn’t create love. It opens the pathway to the gold of our natural love. Then it can spill over to bless all we touch.

~Jack Kornfield

when we connect acceptance to loving well, we create a deep well of strength and care…

inquiry for today~    your wise ruminating. your frequent despair. your laughter. own it all.

for what you deem unnecessary

I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

~Byron Katie