To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.

In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

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

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.

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