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.

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

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

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

We're quietly aching for something to celebrate