The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

I would rather be fooled than not believe.

I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.