Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

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

When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

Walk long enough and we all trade places.

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.