This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.

We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.

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