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

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

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

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

Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.