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

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.

In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?

There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.

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.