If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

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

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."