We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

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.

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

I would rather be fooled than not believe.