When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

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

To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.