I want to share with you today a passage that has stayed deep in my heart since I first read it, one I reference in many of my classes, an essential teaching from Pema Chödrön that will serve us so beautifully now.

“When I was about six years old I received an essential teaching from an old woman sitting in the sun. I was walking by her house one day feeling lonely, unloved, and mad, kicking anything I could find. Laughing, she said to me, “Little girl, don’t you go letting life harden your heart.”

Right there, I received this pith instruction: we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and  make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.”

Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You

On the New Moon, I began a new blog series: 40 Days of Beauty, Goodness & Love, little moments of light to get us through a difficult time. If you get solace, peace and inspiration from this, please share with others who need the same.
PS In the video below, be sure to put on subtitles.