Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

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