Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.

If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay in relationship, the way we refresh who we are and what we're doing here.

When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

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

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.