“The longer we practice in relationship together, the more the heat builds. Sometimes the energy is warm; other times it burns. Still, there is only one thing to practice: gentleness, fearlessness, and the deepening of compassion for self and other. I have unshakable confidence in this truth. Nevertheless, I pray that my faith holds, and that strange circumstances don’t arise to pull me away from my meditation cushion or my husband. Of course, there are no guarantees.”

–from Susan Piver’s marvelous article, “Your Path or Mine?” about being married to a non-meditator in the July issue of the always excellent Shambhala Sun.