The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.

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

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

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.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.