A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

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

The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.

When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

We need experience to release what matters.