Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

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

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.

The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."

All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

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