…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

As nature erodes the earth into magnificent forms, life through endless experience opens us further and further to the essence of what matters. Each time I've been opened further, the way I experience life and receive things has changed.

In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.

The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.

There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.