To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

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

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.

Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?