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.

The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

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

Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.