We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again and again. But it is this straying and returning that makes life interesting, this clinging and letting go - damned as it is - that exercises the heart.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and whether living an awakened life is of any use if we don't bring what matters to bear on the world.

Have the #‎ life you want by being fully present to the life you have.