The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.

Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

Sometimes people in abusive situations think they’re responsible for the other person’s happiness or that they’re going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it’s not all up to you to make someone else happy.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.