We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.

When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.

The human heart holds much more love than it can ever disburse in one lifetime.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.