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

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.

As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.

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

For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

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

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.