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.

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

…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 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.

I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.