If you expect your life to be up and down, your mind will be much more peaceful.
We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us.
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.