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

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.

If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

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

The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.