Boundless Compassion

06/22/2026

Self-compassion is a powerful practice that can transform how we relate to ourselves. Here are six simple yet profound ways to bring more kindness and care into your life:

1️⃣ Supportive Touch: A gentle hand on your heart or a comforting self-hug can soothe and ground you in moments of distress.

2️⃣ Treat Yourself Like a Friend: Speak to yourself with the same kindness and understanding you’d offer a dear friend.

3️⃣ Ask Yourself, 'What do I need?': Pause for a moment and check in. Do you need rest, reassurance, movement, or connection?

4️⃣ Write a Self-Compassionate Letter: Put pen to paper and offer yourself words of comfort and encouragement, just as you would to someone you love.

5️⃣ Remember You Aren’t Alone: It’s important to acknowledge that we all face challenges—this imperfection is what makes us human.

6️⃣ Use a Warm Inner Coice: Try to adopt a gentle tone with yourself, especially when things go wrong. Practice patience and understanding toward yourself.

🌸 Have you tried any of these self-compassion practices? Share your favorite one below!

05/29/2026

05/28/2026

Loneliness isn’t always about who is around us.
Sometimes, it’s about how far we’ve drifted from ourselves.

Self-compassion invites us back into our own presence.
Not to fix or force anything, but to meet ourselves with kindness and care.

01/01/2024

First, Train in the Preliminaries

Our lives are short and we only have limited time to bring about any real and lasting change. If we fail to separate the essential from the nonessential, we will lose ourselves in everyday preoccupations and petty pursuits, and when the time comes to die, it will be too late to change. While we have time, instead of harping on our dissatisfactions, we should reflect on the favorable conditions for practice and resolve to make the most of our opportunities by inscribing the following thought permanently in our minds:

“I have wasted enough time. Why waste any more? From now on, I’ll do something constructive and beneficial with my life, instead of squandering it in meaningless activities.”

–The Practice of Lojong, page 19
by Traleg Kyabgon
shmb.la/practice-lojong

01/01/2024

11/30/2023

These late autumn days I bask within nature’s beauty—from glorious sunrises during my meditation time to marvelous sunsets when I’m out for my daily walk that ends at dusk. It occurred to me today how I begin and end the day in in liminal interludes—times when light passes into dark and darkness gives way to light. Both of these spatial movements carry mystery, inviting attunement to the soul’s unvisited places where spiritual longings wait to be met and tended.

# autumn
# sunrise and sunset


# spiritual longings

09/01/2023

Boundless Compassion 4-Day Retreat - https://mailchi.mp/spiritinthedesert.org/cultivating-climate-justice-13880985

04/22/2023

Sometimes bees get tired from flying and fall asleep inside flowers with pollen on their bee butts. 🐝🌸