Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.

There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.