The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.

When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.