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

I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.

What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.

The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.