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

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.

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

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.