Because you are inseparable from the web of life around you, your inner work and self-care naturally contribute to the healing of the world.

Laughing about your mistakes and disappointments brings sweet humility and self-acceptance as you explore your inner world through spirituality, therapy, writing, art, or other creative work.

When we help another, we are helped. If we harm another, we harm ourselves. Perhaps harder to grasp—if we harm ourselves, we harm the whole universe.

Your heart opens when a new teaching settles into your body, bringing tears of recognition, happiness, and relief. You start recognizing your signs that this is truth for you.

Patience allows you to be present with what is. When you are patient with yourself, your tight, self-critical thoughts let go and relax. In that spaciousness, you discover new solutions for old problems.

enemies are never people, but the demons of doubt, jealousy, hatred, self-loathing, greed, and blinding misperceptions and misunderstandings within our-selves and between ourselves and others

Tibetan Buddhism defines enemies as hidden influences that cause people to behave inappropriately, sometimes to the point of complete destruction. Hidden influences might be imprints from early life or even lifetimes before this one. They manifest as energetic disturbances that arise inside and take over the personality.

the spiritual development of a single individual has the power to transform everyone around them

Envisioning yourself as a fluid, ever-changing work-in-progress creates courage and hope about building a life in conscious connection to others and to yourself.

Release the old imprints of isolation and separateness, letting them wither and die like a vine that no longer has any purpose. Rest in this protected place in which you are nourished and, in turn, nourish others who need your time, love, and attention.