Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

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

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

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

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

Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.