The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

Walk long enough and we all trade places.

Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

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

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.