Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

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 extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.