All relationships begin and end. When a relationship feels short to us we can be sad or relieved or both. When a relationship feels long to us we can be filled with joy or challenged or both by the journey. The length of the relationship does not predict our happiness, and yet we can practice acknowledging the meaning of the length in our own hearts, become familiar with our own yearnings, and give ourselves compassion and self-understanding in order to cultivate equanimity with the coming and going of the seasons of our lives. What is one of your relationships — past, current, or future — that you want to send some love out to through your mind's eye (and heart's eye) today?
[image description: A heart in a small boat in the distance looks on with a quizzical facial expression at two mandarin ducks floating side by side with the shared anthropomorphic thought, "You must learn to rest in the length of your relationships." Text reads: "Mandarin Meditation."]
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