I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.

Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.