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.

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 need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

Walk long enough and we all trade places.

The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.