The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

In the same way that we have to clean wax from our ears and dirt from our eyes, we're all asked to clean out our conclusions and judgments, which block our heart from meeting the world.

I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.

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.

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.

Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.