I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.