In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."

We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.