Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves!

At the end of each day, someone were to play a video of you back to yourself and you could see it all, you would wince quite often and say "Ugh!"

You probably would see that you do all those things for which you criticize all those people you don't like in your life, all those people you judge. 

Basically, making friends with yourself is making friends with all those people too, because when you come to have this kind of honesty, gentleness and goodheartedness, combined with clarity about yourself, there's no obstacle to feeling loving-kindness for others as well.

So the Ground of Maitri is ourselves!

🌹Pema Chodron ~ The wisdom of no escape

* Maitri towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything, change ourselves or become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. It is accepting ourselves just as we are right now without any judgements.

What you seek is seeking you!

As you start to walk on the way....
the way appears!
~Rumi

First Day of School - Such a beautiful poetry!

In summertime the butterflies

dance around our dogwood tree.

Now summer's done and school's begun,

they're fluttering in me!

Will my teacher like me?

Will I make new friends?

Will I learn to write my name

before the school year ends?

Look! There's my teacher now-

she winks as I walk in.
And a boy with a friendly, freckled face
just flashed me a wide grin.

We learn to write alphabet-

and it's only the first day!

hey, I think those butterflies

are fluttering away!

I'll see you soon, my sunny friends

back where you belong-

dancing 'round the dogwood tree

when summer sings its song.

Maria Fleming’s