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

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

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

For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go of what we want so badly and our life will unfold. For love is everywhere.

Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.