Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.

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.

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

The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.

I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.

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.

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