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

Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

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.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

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.

The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.

Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.