Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.

What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.

Feminine spirituality is much more about the emanation of love in this moment, feeling into this moment, feeling the texture of this moment through the skin, through the body, and then letting your life become an emanation of love.

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.