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

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.

Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

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

You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.