We Can Find True Refuge

Most Of Us Need To Be Reminded That We Are Good, That We Are Lovable, That We Belong. If We Knew Just How Powerfully Our Thoughts, Words, And Actions Affected The Hearts Of Those Around Us, We'd Reach Out And Join Hands Again And Again. Our Relationships Have The Potential To Be A Sacred Refuge, A Place Of Healing And Awakening. With Each Person We Meet, We Can Learn To Look Behind The Mask And See The One Who Longs To Love And Be Loved.

If You Let Someone Know You Appreciate Him Or Her, Especially When You're Going To Disagree, It Gets That Person's Defenses Down.

The Boundary To What We Can Accept Is The Boundary To Our Freedom.

You Can Think Of Spiritual Practice As A Kind Of Spiritual Re-parenting ... You're Offering Yourself The Two Qualities That Make Up Good Parenting: Understanding - Seeing Yourself For Who You Truly Are - And Relating To What You See With Unconditional Love.

We, Like The Mother Of The World, Become The Compassionate Presence That Can Hold, With Tenderness, The Rising And Passing Waves Of Suffering.