The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known—even by ourselves.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.

The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.