The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way that you don’t belong, exactly the way that you can’t love, exactly the way that you can’t move ... and you’re on your way again. You’re on your way home. If you can just say exactly the way that you’re imprisoned - the door swings open.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.