What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.
To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.
Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.