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

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.

To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

Let the miracles, even the ones we don't want or see, unfold.

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.