No one gets through life without at least a few major disappointments.

Judging nothing is the way to enlightenment. When the mind drops its ideas about how things should be, and accepts what is as it is, then you start experiencing a great liberation inside.

Love brings up so many feelings and thoughts, most of them involving our past love life which may not have been pleasant.

Humanity is ready to awaken, like the first buds in spring after a long hard winter, as the sun warms them, encouraging them to open.

Today, accept and love every part of yourself, even those parts of yourself that you most wish to see change.

1. The Principle of “Letting Whatever Happens Be Okay” – The amount a person suffers in their life is directly related to how much they are resisting the fact that “things are the way they are.” If there is suffering or discomfort, there is resistance. Addictions or attachments to things being different than they are need to be upgraded to preferences, so when “what is” is not what you want it to be, you do not suffer over it and your happiness and peace are therefore not controlled by forces outside of your control.

It is easy to be negative about past mistakes and unhappiness. But it is much more healing to look at ourselves and our past in the light of experience, acceptance, and growth.

To love yourself means to accept yourself as you are and to come to terms with those aspects of yourself that you cannot change. It means to have self-respect, a positive self-image, and unconditional self-acceptance.

When we experience any kind of devastating loss, whether it is the loss of a loved one, a dream, or a relationship, feelings may arise within us that are overwhelming or difficult to cope with.

To accept what life hands us on a moment to moment basis in a state of quietude, without emotion, with the ability to transcend is probably the most difficult path of being human. We all attach ourselves to life through emotions, cravings, greed, ego, pride, and conceit.

Love – The Gift of Peace by Peter Russell Love is not something you do, Love is a way of being. And more than that. It is simply being, Being with another person, however they may be. Holding no judgments, having no agendas, No desire to control, No need to prove your love, No intrusion [...]