Love free of understanding is not the antidote to hate, because it doesn't demand the practitioner to show up. But rigorous understanding? That's the way we stand up to fear, and the way we begin to dismantle hate.
What causes harm and a lot of effort are the attempts to get rid of the pain or avoid it. Try it out for one moment. Do not do anything about the pain which is arising.
Let what you create on the outside be an expression of what you are on the inside, rather than an attempt to fill a void that you feel within. Get the inside right and the outside will fall into place.
We are opening our hearts to new things that will expand our capacity to love. When we let go and release the sadness we carry, we are left with space inside ourselves, and that space must be filled.
To be the luckiest woman in the world, you must wake up. Consciously stepping outside of your stories in order to see what’s real. To realize that nothing is real.
We, especially as women, shift ourselves in to so many different roles on a daily basis: wife, mother, daughter, friend, girlfriend, lover, fighter, employee, employer, consumer, and we live differently in each of those roles to some extent. That's magical.