Steps to Self-Compassion

• Recognize that we are suffering.
• Drop our reactive stories.
• Mindfully accept and observe whatever painful feelings are present.
• Offer compassion and reassurance to the part of us that is suffering.

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The Difficult Thing of Being Human
Bodipaksa

Realm of the Heart

Suffering can be unpleasant and sometimes cause us to close our hearts, making us bitter and cold. But if we allow suffering to penetrate our being, it can bring us to the tender and vulnerable realm of the heart.

Blossoming of Suffering

When experienced from the heart, suffering can blossom into loving-kindness, compassion, gratitude, peace, and even joy.

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A Fool’s Guide to Actual Happiness
Mark Van Buren

How Synchronicity Works

Synchronicity requires a human participant because it’s a subjective experience in which we give meaning to a coincidence. Meaning differentiates synchronicity from a synchronous event. A synchronous event is anything simultaneous — events that occur at the same moment. Clocks are synchronized, airplanes are scheduled to take off at the same time, several people walk into the same auditorium at the same moment, but no one sees anything significant in these coincidences. In synchronicity, however, the meaningful coincidence occurs within a subjective timeframe. We link two events together, the events need not occur simultaneously, although that’s often the case.

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Inner Knowing
Helen Palmer, Editor