To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

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.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.