We're quietly aching for something to celebrate

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

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

The humility of wonder opens everything.

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

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush our little want to be big; we come, not knowing that all the work is so much busyness of mind; all the worry, so much busyness of heart. As the sun warms anything near, being warms everything still and the great still things that outlast us make us crack like leaves of laurel releasing a fragrance that has always been.