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

My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

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

When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.

In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.