A woman enjoying the Bogar Botanical Gardens outside of Jakarta.

“What Is Bitter And What Is Sweet”

“Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important.  The reason it’s important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn’t just ourselves that we’re discovering.  We’re discovering the universe.”

~ Pema Chodron, from “When Things Fall apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”

Namasté