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.

The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.