Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.
Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.