Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

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.

If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?

A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.