When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.

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

At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and whether living an awakened life is of any use if we don't bring what matters to bear on the world.

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.

The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are