Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.

The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone - that is pure hope, rooted in the heart.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.

At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.