I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.

One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.

The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.