Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.

What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.