"The Heart That Never Breaks" is a collection of poetry in the various themes of Peace, Love, Unity, and Spiritual Devotion. The book contains 108 poems, (traditional styles and haikus), that provide a glimpse into the author's ongoing journey to cultivate an awareness of the intuitive heart. Anthony Paul Moo-Young, spiritual teacher affectionately known by his students as Mooji, once said during one of his discourses, "Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and open to the True and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being." It is in these basic principles above that I have seen great transformation in my life. The poetry within is a glimpse of that journey into the Intuitive Heart, a space not of refuge, but a way of living that cultivates an awareness of Grace, Love, Oneness and Unity. A place that tunes one in to that Divine Source of Life, the Spiritual Heart, The Heart That Never Breaks.

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia there are significant pressures for residential energy tariffs to rise, as government budgets are increasingly stretched and cannot afford to pay large energy subsidies. Further pressures for tariffs to rise come from environmental concerns, as the tariff levels that households now face do not cover the social costs of energy production. Because reforms that would increase energy tariffs are likely to affect significantly the poor and the middle class, their political feasibility may be questioned unless appropriate ways of cushioning the impacts can be devised. Balancing these competing claims-fiscal and environmental concerns on the one hand, affordability and political economy concerns on the other-is a task that policy makers in the region are increasingly unable to put off. While challenging, the reforms needed for this balancing act can build on much that has been learned in the last decade in terms of improving the effectiveness of social assistance systems and increasing energy efficiency. This report suggests that a policy agenda that focuses on cutting subsidies to the energy sector, while investing in energy efficiency and supporting households at the bottom of the distribution, amounts to a new wave of policy reforms for the energy sector in transition countries. The feasibility of such an integrated policy agenda and the ability of these policies to balance the competing claims of fi scal responsibility and social concerns are explored through different policy scenarios, which, in their simplicity, help clarify the parameters of the policy choices many countries ECA are facing. This report is a part of a series of 3 regional reports. The series includes 'Growing green: The economic benefits of climate action in Europe and Central Asia', 'Balancing act: Cutting energy subsidies and protecting affordability' and 'Lessons learned from energy efficiency success cases'.